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Wireless LAN Card User Guide No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form by any means without the prior written permission. Other trademarks or brand names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Feb 2003, Rev02 Contents About this Document..................................................................iii Audience......................................................................................iv 1. Introduction........................................................5 Package Contents ...................................................................... 5 System Requirements................................................................ 5 2. Windows 2000 ..................................................7 Driver Installation (First-Time Install)....................................... 7 Driver Installation (Previous Driver Installed)......................... 8 Driver Uninstallation ................................................................... 9 Device Configuration................................................................10 Selecting Encryption Types.....................................................12 Infrastructure Mode.........................................................13 Ad Hoc Mode ...................................................................14 TCP/IP Setup ...................................................................15 3. Windows Millennium Edition.........................17 Driver Installation......................................................................17 Driver Uninstallation .................................................................18 Device Configuration................................................................18 Selecting Encryption Types.....................................................19 TCP/IP Configuration ...............................................................19 4. Windows XP ....................................................21 Driver Installation (First-time Install)......................................21 Driver Uninstallation .................................................................21 Device Configuration................................................................22 Selecting Encryption Types.....................................................23 TCP/IP Setup.............................................................................23 i Wireless Broadband Router User Manual Windows XP Wireless Network Configuration .....................24 Infrastructure Mode.........................................................25 Ad Hoc Mode ...................................................................25 Connect to an Available Wireless Network.................26 5. Regulatory Compliance Information............28 Radio Frequency Interference Requirements ......................28 DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY......................................28 FCC WARNING ........................................................................28 RF Exposure..............................................................................29 ii Preface This user's guide provides the necessary information for first-time users to successfully install the Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS) driver. This guide al o provides information for user who wish to upgrade the NDIS driver from previous releases. This guide describe the step required to Install NDIS driver for the Wireless Network Adapter in Windows 2000,Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows XP, and Windows NT 4.0. This guide also includes detailed instruction for configuring the PC Card device, or IEEE 802.11a station (STA), to interact with an access point (AP) in infrastructure mode and with other STAs in ad hoc mode. You should also read this before proceeding to install the Wireless Network Adapter and NDIS driver in the targeted operating system (OS) environment. About this Document The document consists of the following chapters and appendix:
Chapter 1 Introduction Hardware, Software, and System Requirements. Chapter 2 Windows 2000 Installation/Uninstallation Procedure and Device/Network Configuration for Windows 2000. Chapter 3 Windows 98 Second Edition Installation/Uninstallation Procedures and Device/Network Configurations for Windows 98 Second Edition. Chapter 4 Windows XP Installation/Uninstallation Procedure and Device/Network Configuration for Windows XP. iii Wireless Broadband Router User Manual Audience This document is intended for customers who wish to install and evaluate the Wireless Station in the supported Microsoft Window environments. iv 1. Introduction The Wireless Network Adapter is an IEEE 802.11a two-chip solution reference design based on the Atheros chipset. This reference design implements a half-duplex, Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) baseband processor supporting all IEEE 802.11a data rates (6 to 54 Mbp) and 802.11b.It al o supports the Atheros Turbo Mode TM supporting data rates up to 108 Mbps .The host interface is compatible with the PC Card 7.1 standard. Package Contents Make sure the following materials are available before you begin:
Release CD, or electronic equivalent Wireless Network Adapter System Requirements IBM Thinkpad 2628 or Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100 Laptop PC containing:
computer 32-bit CardBus slot on either side of laptop 32 MB memory or greater 300 MHz processor or higher 32 MB memory or greater 300 MHz processor or higher Desktop PC with PC card-PCI adapter Microsoft Window 2000/Windows Millennium Edition/Windows 98 Second Edition/Windows XP/Windows NT 4.0 (with Service Pack 6) 5
2. Windows 2000 This chapter describes the Windows 2000 driver installation. Driver Installation (First-Time Install) This section describes the first-time installation for the driver for Windows 2000. If you have a previously installed driver, refer to the section Driver Installation (Previous Driver Installed). We recommend that you remove any existing drivers (NDIS, DK, or TDI) on the PC system before installing the Version 1.0 release of the NDIS driver. See Section Driver Uninstallation for the instruction on how to remove previous driver releases. Insert the Wireless Network Adapter into a 32-bit CardBus slot and follow these steps to install the NDIS driver:
1. Wait for the following dialog box to display. 2. Click Next to continue. 3. Choose Search for a suitable driver for my device
(recommended) Insert the Release CD in your CD-ROM drive. 4. Click Next. 5. 6. Choose Specify a location under Optional search locations. 7. Click Next to continue. 8. Browse to the location where the NDIS driver is located
(assuming D is the CD-ROM drive),the default folder is D:\ndi
\bin \production \ndi 5. 9. Click OK to continue. 10. When you find the driver installation file (net5211.inf),click Next to continue. 11. The NDIS evaluation driver currently does not have a digital signature from Microsoft. Therefore, Windows 2000 show a warning message. Click Yes to proceed with driver installation. 7 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual 12. Click Finish to complete the driver installation. See Device Configuration for the device configuration information. Driver Installation (Previous Driver Installed) If the system already has a previous release of the NDIS installed, Windows does not prompt for the device driver when the WLAN Card is inserted. Follow the step below to update the NDIS driver:
1. Start System Properties from Control Panel. Under Hardware tab, click Device Manager. 2. Within Device Manager, right-click Wireless Network Adapter under Network adapters device node, and click Properties. 3. Click Update Driver...from the Driver tab. Note the Driver Version that you are updating from. You may need to verify this field again after driver update completes to make sure the driver has been updated correctly. 4. Click Next to continue. 5. Choose Display a list of the known drivers for this device so that is can choose a specific driver. 6. Click Next to continue. 7. Insert the Release CD into your CD-ROM drive. Click Have Disk...to continue. 8. Click Browse to specify the location where the NDIS driver is located (assuming D is the CD-ROM drive),the default folder is D:\ndi \bin \production \ndis5. 9. Click OK to continue. 10. Select Wireless Network Adapter from the list. 11. Click Next to continue. 12. Click Yes to continue when Windows displays the warning message. 13. Click Next to proceed with the installation. 14. The NDIS evaluation driver currently does not have a digital signature from Microsoft. Therefore, Windows 2000 show a warning message. Click Yes to proceed with driver installation. 8 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual 15. Click Finish. 16. Note that Driver Version should display 2.0 as the major revision number. Click OK to continue. 17. Click Yes to restart system. 18. After the system restarts, the Wireless Network Adapter will display under Network adapter in the Device Manager. Proceed to Section Device Configuration for device configuration information. Driver Uninstallation This section provides information about uninstallation procedures required for upgrading the NDIS driver from previous software release .If the system does not have previously installed versions of the NDIS driver and you wish to remove the newly installed driver from the system, proceed to Step 4. The NDIS driver since Release 1.0 no longer leverages the Transport Driver Interface (TDI) protocol to provide the LinkMon programming interface. The TDI protocol should be uninstalled. Follow these step to uninstall the TDI protocol:
1. To remove the NDIS driver from the OS, go to Device Manager, right-click Wireless Network Adapter, and choose Uninstall. 2. Click OK to unInstall the device. 3. When the device is uninstalled from Device Manager, search for and delete the driver file that reside in the system. a. Go to the Start menu and choose Search For Files or Folders... b. Enter oem*.infin the Search for file or folders named field,and enter Atheros in the Containing text: field. c. Click Search Now. A few files matching these criteria are possible, if previous drivers have not been removed properly. d. Choose the files that have been found and delete them from the system. 9 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual 4. To complete the uninstallation, remove the file ar5211.sys from the \WINNT \system32 \drivers folder. Device Configuration Configuration of the Wireless Network Adapter can be done through the NIC Configuration utility found in the Windows Control Panel. The device can be set to work in one of two modes:
infrastructure mode or ad hoc mode. In infrastructure mode, the Wireless Network adapter participates in a basic service set (BSS) as a station, and communicate with other stations through an AP. In ad hoc mode, a Wireless Network Adapter work within an independent basic service set (IBSS). All stations communicate directly with other station without an AP. To configure the Wireless Network Adapter:
1. In the Device Manager, right-click Wireless Network Adapter, and click Properties to access the properties of the adapter. 2. Configuration additions, modifications, and deletions are made under the Setting tab of the Wireless Network Adapter 3. Select one of the configurations under the configuration list, and click Modify to show the Network Configuration Settings screen. This property sheet has two pages: General and Security. Table 2-1 provide descriptions for the fields on the General page. Table 2-1. General Dialog Field Descriptions Field Name Description Configuration Name This field identifies the configuration. This name must be unique. Configuration names are case insensitive. Network Name (SSID) This is the name of the IEEE 802.11a wireless network, for example, 802.11a Wireless Network. This field has a maximum limit of 32 character . Network Connection This field defines whether the STA is configured for an ad hoc or infrastructure network. 10 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual Power Savings Locally Administered Address (LAA) This field allow the configuration of power management option .The option are Off, Normal, and Maximum. Power management is disabled when ad hoc mode is selected in the Network Connection field. When the Power Saving setting is Off, the adapter receives full power from the PC. When the Power Saving setting is Normal, the driver turns off power to the adapter for brief period over briefly-spaced time intervals. When the Power Saving setting is Maximum, the driver turn off power to the adapter for longer periods over more widely-spaced time intervals. This field defines the locally administered MAC address. Table 2-2 provides descriptions for the fields on the Security dialog. All encryption key fields are displayed only when initially entered. On subsequent entry into the security property page, the field are masked. The keys must be entered as hexadecimal digit . Table 2-2.Security Dialog Field Descriptions Field Name Enable Security Default Encryption Key Unique Key Shared Keys Key Length Description Completely enables or disables the IEEE 802.11 wired equivalent privacy (WEP)security feature. Defines the type of encryption key to use (either Unique Key or Shared Key ).This field allows you to elect only a key
(Unique, First, Second, Third, or Fourth) whose corresponding field has been completed. Defines the unique encryption key for security for the current network configuration. In ad hoc mode, this encryption key type is not used. To enable security using a Unique Key, This field must be populated. These fields define a set of shared encryption keys. To enable security using Shared Key ,at least one Shared Key field must be populated. Defines the length for each encryption key. A the Key Length is changed, the number of available characters in the field is changed automatically. If after a key is entered the length is adjusted to a smaller number, the key is automatically truncated to fit. If the length is increased 11 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual again, the field is not automatically updated to it previous value. Selecting Encryption Types We support two encryption type ;Wired Equivalent Privacy
(WEP)and Advanced Encryption Security (AES).While WEP is universally supported and commonly used, AES provide a much higher level of security, that is, frames encrypted with AES are more difficult to decipher without knowing the key. To use AES, you must specify a unique key (refer to Table 2-2). NOTE: AES is not supported in ad hoc mode, since ad hoc mode does not support unique keys. Select the encryption type automatically (auto) or manually at both the STA and AP. By specifying auto, the STA and AP will negotiate and attempt to use AES before exchanging data packets. If AES is not supported by the STA or AP,WEP is used. Manual selection allows you to specify the encryption type. By default, the STA is set to auto and will first attempt to use AES, and will only use WEP if the AP supports, or is configured for WEP only. Use the Advanced tab on the Wireless Network Adapter dialog to change the encryption type. Table 2-3 provides descriptions for the fields on the Network Configuration Setting, Advanced tab dialog. Table 2-3. Advanced Dialog Field Descriptions Field Name Wireless Mode Ad Hoc Mode 802.11a Turbo 12 Description Specifies 802.11a,802.11b,or autoselect operation. Autoselect allows the use of both 802.11a and 802.11b mode . Specifies a band to establish an ad hoc network if no matching SSID is found after scanning all available mode . Enables or disables turbo mode for 802.11a radio space.. Once enabled, both 802.11a and 802.11a turbo modes are scanned. Wireless Broadband Router User Manual 802.11b Range Encryption Type Scan Mode Transmit Power QoS Selects either normal (uses all four 802.11b transmit rates)or extended range (limits network to 1 or 2 Mbit range). Specifies the encryption types: _ WEP -u e only WEP encryption. _ AES -only associate with Acce Point that can successfully negotiate AES encryption. _ Auto -Allow the STA and AP to negotiate the encryption type. Specifies passive, or auto canning (use country code to select the type of scan, active or passive). Select full, half, quarter, eighth, or minimum transmit power. Disables or enables the station to cooperate in a network using Quality of Service. To change the encryption type, take the following step:
1. From the Network Configuration Settings dialog Advanced tab, use the Encryption Type drop-down menu to specify the encryption type. 2. Click OK to enable your change. CAUTION: To successfully transmit data frames, specify a unique key. NOTE: If AES and ad hoc are both specified, the STA will use WEP. NOTE: Fragmentation is currently not supported using AES. Infrastructure Mode To configure an Wireless Network Adapter in infrastructure mode:
1. Ensure that the Locally Administered Address checkbox is unchecked. 2. Enter information in the General dialog as summarized in Table 2-4. 13 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual Table 2-4. Infrastructure Mode General Dialog Field Descriptions Field Name Configuration Name Network Name (SSID) Description This field identifies the configuration. This name must be unique. Configuration names are case insensitive. This is the name of the IEEE 802.11a wireless network, for example, 802.11a Wireless Network. This field has a maximum limit of 32 characters. If the field is left blank, the STA connect to the AP with the best signal strength. Network Connection AP (infrastructure). Power Savings Locally Administered Address
(LAA) This field allow the configuration of power management options. The options are Off, Normal and Maximum. This field defines the locally administered MAC address. To enter a value in the address field, the check box needs to be selected. Usually infrastructure mode is used in an enterprise environment where APs are installed and maintained by corporate IT staff. Much of the data in the enterprise network is confidential. It is important to configure security to make sure only stations with appropriate keys can receive sensitive data. The Wireless Network Adapter and NDIS driver support key lengths of 40 bits,104 bits, and 128 bits. Typically, the appropriate encryption and decryption keys are supplied by the corporate IT staff. Ad Hoc Mode An ad hoc network usually is a short-lived network with a small number of stations. The network is usually created for a special purpose such as exchanging data between friend ,or between customer and client. Because the duration of the ad hoc network tends to be limited, Power Saving and Security features are not typically a requirement. For ad hoc network activity, the Power Saving and Security features can be disabled. Currently, shared key security is supported in ad hoc mode. Future software implementation will provide unique key support. 14 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual In ad hoc mode, a station scans the air for an existing BSS. If no BSS is found, the station establishes a BSS for other stations to join. When other stations scan the air and find an established BSS in place, they join that BSS to form an ad hoc network. If a specific set of stations requires ad hoc network connectivity, it is recommended to have one station establish a BSS first before configuring the remaining stations. This prevent the scenario of several stations trying to form a BSS at the same time, which can result in multiple singular BSSs being established, rather than a single BSS with multiple stations. Table 2-5 summarize the field description for the General dialog in ad hoc mode. TCP/IP Setup After configuring the Wireless Network Adapter through the Network Control Panel, the TCP/IP address for the network device must be configured. 1. Open the Control Panel and click Network and Dial-up Connections. 2. Find the Local Area Connectionthat is associated with the Wireless Network Adapter. Right-click that connection, and click Properties. Table 2-5. Ad Hoc Mode General Dialog Field Descriptions Field Name Configuration Name Network Name (SSID) Description This field identifies the configuration. This name must be unique. Configuration names are case insensitive. This is the name of the IEEE 802.11a wireless network, for example, 802.11a Wireless Network. This field has a maximum limit of 32 characters. If the field is left blank, the STA connect to the AP with the best signal strength. Network Connection AP (infrastructure). Power Savings This field allow the configuration of power management options. The options are Off, Normal 15 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual and Maximum. Locally Administered Address
(LAA) This field defines the locally administered MAC address. To enter a value in the address field, the check box needs to be selected. 3. Select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and click Properties . 4. Click Use the following IP address and input an IP address and Subnet mask. Assigning an IP address and Subnet mask allows stations to operate in infrastructure mode and to have Internet access. Default gatewayand DNS serverinformation is also required. IP configuration information
(DHCP or assigned IP address, Gateway and DNS server IP addresses) is usually obtained from the corporate IT staff. 5. After obtaining IP configuration information from the appropriate IT staff, click OK in both Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties and Local Area Connection Properties to complete the IP configuration.. 6. Choose Start >Programs >Accessories >Command Prompt to open the DOS command prompt window. 7. Type ipconfig at the C::\>prompt to determine if the TCP/IP configuration has taken effect. To test IP connectivity in ad hoc or infrastructure mode, use the ping <ipaddress> command. When a TCP/IP connection is established, the LinkMon utility can be used to monitor the Wireless Network Adapter operating status. 8. To map the drive on another machine to your computer, right-click My Computer and click Map Network Drive.... 9. After mapping the drive, you can perform file transfers, use video streaming applications, and all other network data transfer that are normally performed with wired 10/100 Ethernet connections. 16 3. Windows Millennium Edition This chapter describes the Windows Millennium Edition network driver installation. Driver Installation We recommend that you remove any existing NDIS driver on the PC y tem before installing Version 1.0 release of the NDIS driver. See Driver Uninstallation for the instructions on how to remove previous driver releases. When the system no longer has the NDIS driver Installed, insert the Wireless Network Adapter into a 32-bit CardBus slot, and follow these teps to install the NDIS driver:
1. Wait for the following dialog box to appear. Choose Specify the location of the driver (Advanced), and click Next to continue. 2. Choose Search for the best driver for your device.(Recommended). a. Select Specify a location. b. Click Browse to locate the NDIS driver. The default folder is E:\ndis \bin \production \ndis5 (assuming E: is the CD-ROM drive). c. Click Next to continue. 3. When the driver installation file (NET5210B.INF)has been found, 4. Click Finish to continue, and restart the system to complete driver installation. Refer to Device Configuration for device configuration. 17 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual Driver Uninstallation This section provides uninstallation procedure for removing the NDIS driver from the system. Uninstallation is recommended for upgrading the NDIS driver from previous driver releases. 1. Remove the NDIS driver from the OS:
a. Go to Start >Search >For Files or Folders...,and search for the INF file containing the Atheros text string under the
\WINDOWS \INF folder. Be sure to include subfolders in the search criteria. b. When Atheros net5211.inf has been found, delete it by right-clicking the file and choose Delete. 2. From Control Panel, launch the System Properties window. Select Wireless Network Adapter from Device Manager, and click Remove to uninstall the 3. Click OK to confirm the removal of the device. 4. Restart the system to complete un-installation. Device Configuration Configuration of the Wireless Network Adapter can be done through the NIC Configuration utility found in the Windows Control Panel. Similar to Windows 2000,the device can be set to work in one of two modes: infrastructure mode or ad hoc mode. Please refer to Device Configuration for more details on these network connection type . To launch the configuration utility, go to Control Panel and double-click on the NIC Configuration icon. The configuration utility allows addition, modification, and deletion of the configuration profile .Select one of the existing configuration profiles under the configuration list to modify, or click New to add a new configuration profile. Refer to Infrastructure Mode and Ad Hoc Mode to set up the station to work in infrastructure mode and ad hoc mode. 18 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual Selecting Encryption Types We support two encryption type ;Wired Equivalent Privacy
(WEP)and Advanced Encryption Security (AES). Refer Selecting Encryption Types in chapter 2 for details. TCP/IP Configuration After configuring the Wireless Network Adapter network adapter properties, the TCP/IP address for the network device needs to be configured. 1. From Control Panel, launch the Network properties window. 2. Select TCP/IP .Wireless Network Adapter and click Properties. Depending on the type of network the station connects to, Gateway and DNS Configuration information can also be required. IP configuration information (DHCP or assigned IP address, Gateway and DNS server IP addresses) is usually obtained from the corporate IT staff. For a simple demonstration, the station is assigned a static IP address. 3. From TCP/IP Properties, choose IP Address and select Specify an IP address. Input an IP address and subnet mask. Assigning an IP address and subnet mask allows the station to interact with the AP or other stations in the same IP subnet. 4. Click OK to complete the TCP/IP configuration, and re tart the system for the changes to take effect. 5. Choose Start >Programs >Accessories >Command Prompt to open the DOS command prompt window. Type ipconfig to determine if the TCP/IP configuration has taken effect. To test IP connectivity in ad hoc or infrastructure mode, use the ping
<ipaddress>command. When a TCP/IP connection is established, the LinkMon utility can be used to monitor the Wireless Network Adapter operating status. 19 4. Windows XP This chapter describes the Windows XP driver installation. Driver Installation (First-time Install) We recommend that you remove any existing drivers on the PC system before installing Version 1.0 release of the NDIS driver. Refer to Driver Uninstallation for the instructions on how to remove previous driver release. With no existing NDIS driver installed, insert the Wireless Network Adapter into a 32-bit CardBus slot, and follow these steps to install the NDIS driver:
1. Wait for the following dialog box to appear. Choose Install from a list or specific location (Advanced), and click Next to continue.. 2. Under Search for the be t driver in these locations, choose Include this location in the search and click Browse to find the location of the NDIS driver. When the driver location has been identified, click Next to continue. 3. The NDIS evaluation driver currently does not have a digital signature from Microsoft. Therefore, Windows XP shows a warning message. Click Continue Anyway to proceed with driver installation. 4. Click Finish to complete driver installation, and refer to Device Configuration for device configuration. Driver Uninstallation This section provides uninstallation procedure for removing the NDIS driver from the system. Uninstallation is recommended for upgrading the NDIS driver from previous driver releases. 21 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual 1. To remove the NDIS driver from the OS, go to Device Manager, right click Wireless Network Adapter, and choose Uninstall. 2. Click OK to uninstall the device. 3. When the device is uninstalled from Device Manager, search for and delete the driver installation file that reside in the system. a. Go to Start and choose Search >All files and folder, enter oem*.inf in the All or part of the file name field. b. Enter Atheros in the A word or phrase in the file field. c. Enter C:\WINNT \INF in the Look in field, where C: is the drive letter of where Windows XP is installed. d. Click Search to find the driver installation file. 4. A file matching the search criteria is displayed. Choose this file and delete it from the system. Device Configuration Windows XP zero-configuration functionality allows you to select and join a wireless network without having to configure the device separately. You can decide to choose the default parameters and directly proceed to zero-configuration in Window XP Wireless Network Configuration. Similar to Windows 2000,configuration of the Wireless Network Adapter can be done through the Network Control Panel (NCP) in adapter properties. You can set the Wireless Network Adapter to work in one of two modes: infrastructure mode or ad hoc mode. Refer to Device Configuration for more details on these network connection type. To launch NCP go to Device Manager, right-click Wireless Network Adapter, and select Properties to access to the properties of the adapter. Configuration additions, modifications, and deletions are made under the Setting tab of Wireless Network Adapter Properties. 22 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual Select one of the configuration under the configuration, click Modify or New and complete the steps in Infrastructure Mode or Ad Hoc Mode to set up the station to work in infrastructure mode or ad hoc mode, respectively. Selecting Encryption Types We support two encryption type ;Wired Equivalent Privacy
(WEP)and Advanced Encryption Security (AES). Refer Selecting Encryption Types in chapter 2 for details. TCP/IP Setup After configuring the Wireless Network Adapter through the Network Control Panel, the TCP/IP address for the network device needs to be configured. 1. From the Start menu, choose Programs >Accessories
>Communications >Network Connections. Find the Local Area Connection that is associated with the Wireless Network Adapter. Right-click that connection and click Properties. 2. Select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and click Properties. 3. Click Use the following IP address and input an IP address and Subnet mask. Depending on the type of network the station connects to, Gateway and DNS Configuration information can also be required. IP configuration information
(DHCP or assigned IP address, Gateway and DNS server IP addresses) is usually obtained from the corporate IT staff. For a simple demonstration, the station is assigned a static IP address. 4. Click OK in both Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties and Local Area Connection Properties to complete the IP configuration.. 7. To map the drive on another machine to your computer, from the Start menu, choose My Computer and right-click to select Map Network Drive.... 23 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual 8. Assign the drive letter that map to the network-hared folder and specify the shared folder information. Click Finish to map the drive. 9. After mapping the drive, you can perform file transfers, video streaming, and all other network data transfers that are normally performed with wired 10/100 Ethernet connection . Windows XP Wireless Network Configuration Aside from using the Network Control Panel (NCP)to configure the Wireless Network Adapter, Windows XP provides zero-configuration functionality that automatically tries to connect the STA to available wireless networks in the following order:
Infrastructure mode with valid WEP key Infrastructure mode with unauthenticated acce for tation without WEP keys Ad hoc mode To configure wireless network setting through the Windows XP user interface:
1. Open Network Connections from Control Panel. 2. Right-click the Local Area Network Connection icon (pertinent to Wireless Network Adapter). 3. Click Enable to enable the device first, and then click Properties. 4. On the Wireless Networks tab, select the Use Windows to configure my wireless network settings check box to enable automatic wireless network configuration. Refer to Infrastructure Mode or Ad Hoc Mode to set up the station to connect to an infrastructure or ad hoc network. If you want to use non-default setting for power saving and turbo mode, you should set those parameter through the NCP method
(refer to Device Configuration).Then use Wireless Network tab to select network name, network type, and encryption keys. Note that you can disable automatic wireless network configuration, and revert back to using NCP configuration settings, by clearing 24 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual the Use Windows to configure my wireless network setting check box. Infrastructure Mode To set up automatic wireless network configuration to connect to an existing Access Point (infrastructure network),follow these steps:
1. Click the network name under Available networks in the Wireless Networks tab, and click Configure. You can update the list of available networks that are within range of your computer by clicking Refresh under Available Networks. If the network requires WEP, then the Data encryption (WEP enabled) check box is elected by default in Wireless Network Properties. 2. 3. Select The key is provided for me automatically check box if the WEP key is automatically provided for you. The driver will then use the Default Encryption key from the current NCP configuration profile irrespective of the network name. You may choose to enter the WEP key by clearing this check box and manually entering the network key and key length. NOTE: The key format must be hexadecimal digits and the key length is limited to 104-bit in Window XP, as opposed to 128-bit key supported by NDIS driver in the NCP configuration interface. If the network that you are connecting to requires 128-bit WEP key, then it is recommended that you disable Windows XP automatic wireless network configuration and use NCP configuration instead. Ad Hoc Mode To connect to an existing computer-to-computer (ad hoc)network:
1. Click the ad hoc network name under Available networks in 2. the Wireless Network tab, and click Configure. In Wireless s Network Properties, the This is a computer-to-computer (ad hoc) network; wireless access point 25 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual are not used check box is selected by default. You may choose to enable WEP by selecting the Data encryption
(WEP enabled) check box and the Network Authentication
(Shared mode) check box.. 3. Select the The key is provided for me automatically check box if the shared key is automatically provided for you. The driver will then use the Default Encryption key from the current NCP configuration profile irrespective of the network name. You may choose to enter the shared key by clearing this check box and enter the key and key length manually. NOTE: The key format must be hexadecimal digits and the key length is limited to 104-bit in Windows XP as opposed to 128-bit key supported by NDIS driver in the NCP configuration interface. If the network that you are connecting to require 128-bit WEP key then it is recommended that you disable Windows XP automatic wireless network configuration and use NCP configuration instead. 4. If you want to connect to an ad hoc network, but both ad hoc and infrastructure networks are within range of your computer, then click Advanced in the Wireless Network tab and then select Computer-to-computer (ad hoc)networks only .Note that if you want the station to start it own ad hoc network, the Computer-to-computer (ad hoc) networks only option should be selected. There should be no network active from the preferred list and the Automatically connect to non-preferred network check box should be cleared.. Connect to an Available Wireless Network When there is more than one available network detected by Windows XP, the OS will prompt you to select and connect to a preferred network. To connect to an available wireless network, right-click the network connection icon in the notification area, and then click View Available Wireless Network. In Connect to Wireless Network, under Available network, select the wireless network that you want to connect to. If a network key is required and is automatically provided for you, then leave Network key blank. If the network key is not automatically 26 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual provided for you, then type the key in Network key. Click Connect to establish the network connection. If you are either unable to make a connection to the wireless network that you selected or need to configure additional wireless network connection settings, click Advanced in Connect to Wireless Network, and the Wireless Networks tab will appear. You can configure a new wireless network connection by clicking Add, and specifying the network name (SSID)in Wireless Network Properties, and the wireless network key settings, if needed. If the network connection that you are configuring is an ad hoc network, then select This is a computer-to-computer (ad hoc)network; wireless access point are not used check box. The network will be added under Preferred networks in the Wireless Networks tab. You can change the order of the preferred networks by selecting the wireless network that you want to reposition on the list, and then clicking Move up or Move down. You can change the wireless network connection settings of a preferred network by selecting the wireless network, clicking Properties, and then changing the setting as needed. To remove a wireless s network from the list of preferred networks, select the wireless network that you want to remove, and then click Remove. If a network is not defined in the preferred networks list, but you know it is available and you want to automatically connect to it, then click Advanced in the Wireless Networks tab, and select the Automatically connect to non-preferred network check box. 27 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual 5. Regulatory Compliance Information Radio Frequency Interference Requirements This device is restricted to indoor use due to its operation in the 5.15 to 5.25 GHz frequency range. FCC requires this product to be used indoors for the frequency range 5.15 to 5.25 GHz to reduce the potential for harmful interference to co-channel Mobile Satellite systems. High power radar are allocated as primary user of the 5.25 to 5.35 GHz and 5.65 to 5.85 GHz bands. These radar stations can cause interference with and / or damage this device. DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY We Askey Computer Corp. 10F, No.119, Chienkang Rd., Chung-Ho, Taipei, Taiwan R.O.C. declare under our sole responsibility that the product WLC221-D4 /
BCP3483U Wireless LAN CardBus Card Complies with Part 15 of FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions:
(1)the device may not cause harmful interference, and (2)this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. FCC WARNING This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limit for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. The equipment generate, use, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. 28 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, with can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following methods:
_ Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna. _ Increase the separation between the equipment and the receiver. _ Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that which the receiver is connected. _ Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help. _ Modifications made to the product, unless expressly approved by Askey Computer Corp., could void the users authority to operate the equipment. RF Exposure In August 1996 the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of the United States with its action in Report and Order FCC 96-326 adopted an updated safety standard for human exposure to radio frequency electromagnetic energy emitted by FCC regulated transmitters. Those guidelines are consistent with the safety standard previously set by both U.S. and international standards bodies. The design of this device complies with the FCC guidelines and these international standards. Use only the supplied or an approved antenna. Unauthorized antennas, modifications, or attachments could result in violation of FCC regulations. This device can not co-locate or operate with any other transmitter. Laptop Computer Operation This device was tested with IBM laptop ( Thinkpad 2628) computer and Toshiba laptop (Satellite Pro 6100 System) computer with PCMCIA slot on either side of the computer for typical body-worn operations with the device directly contacted to the human body to the back and side of the laptop computer. To maintain compliance with FCC RF exposure compliance requirements, maintain at least 1.5 cm to nearby person. 29
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Wireless LAN Card User Guide No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form by any means without the prior written permission. Other trademarks or brand names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Feb 2003, Rev02 Contents About this Document.............................................................. iii Audience................................................................................. iv 1. Introduction...............................................5 Package Contents ...................................................................5 System Requirements.............................................................5 2. Windows 2000 ..........................................7 Driver Installation (First-Time Install) .....................................7 Driver Installation (Previous Driver Installed) ........................8 Driver Uninstallation ................................................................9 Device Configuration.............................................................10 Selecting Encryption Types ..................................................12 Infrastructure Mode ......................................................13 Ad Hoc Mode................................................................14 TCP/IP Setup ...............................................................15 3. Windows Millennium Edition..................... 17 Driver Installation ..................................................................17 Driver Uninstallation ..............................................................18 Device Configuration.............................................................18 Selecting Encryption Types ..................................................19 TCP/IP Configuration............................................................19 4. Windows XP ........................................... 21 Driver Installation (First-time Install) ....................................21 Driver Uninstallation ..............................................................21 Device Configuration.............................................................22 Selecting Encryption Types ..................................................23 TCP/IP Setup ........................................................................23 i Wireless Broadband Router User Manual Windows XP Wireless Network Configuration.....................24 Infrastructure Mode ......................................................25 Ad Hoc Mode................................................................25 Connect to an Available Wireless Network.................26 5. Regulatory Compliance Information.......... 28 Radio Frequency Interference Requirements .....................28 DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY.....................................28 FCC WARNING.....................................................................28 RF Exposure..........................................................................29 ii Preface This user's guide provides the necessary information for first-time users to successfully install the Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS) driver. This guide al o provides information for user who wish to upgrade the NDIS driver from previous releases. This guide describe the step required to Install NDIS driver for the Wireless Network Adapter in Windows 2000,Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows XP, and Windows NT 4.0. This guide also includes detailed instruction for configuring the PC Card device, or IEEE 802.11a station (STA), to interact with an access point (AP) in infrastructure mode and with other STAs in ad hoc mode. You should also read this before proceeding to install the Wireless Network Adapter and NDIS driver in the targeted operating system (OS) environment. About this Document The document consists of the following chapters and appendix:
Chapter 1 Introduction Hardware, Software, and System Requirements. Chapter 2 Windows 2000 Installation/Uninstallation Procedure and Device/Network Configuration for Windows 2000. Chapter 3 Windows 98 Second Edition Installation/Uninstallation Procedures and Device/Network Configurations for Windows 98 Second Edition. Chapter 4 Windows XP Installation/Uninstallation Procedure and Device/Network Configuration for Windows XP. iii Wireless Broadband Router User Manual Audience This document is intended for customers who wish to install and evaluate the Wireless Station in the supported Microsoft Window environments. iv 1. Introduction The Wireless Network Adapter is an IEEE 802.11a two-chip solution reference design based on the Atheros chipset. This reference design implements a half-duplex, Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) baseband processor supporting all IEEE 802.11a data rates (6 to 54 Mbp) and 802.11b.It al o supports the Atheros Turbo Mode TM supporting data rates up to 108 Mbps .The host interface is compatible with the PC Card 7.1 standard. Package Contents Make sure the following materials are available before you begin:
?? Release CD, or electronic equivalent
?? Wireless Network Adapter System Requirements
?? IBM Thinkpad 2628 or Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100 Laptop computer PC with PCMCIA slot on either side of the computer or other substantially similar laptop PCs containing:
?? 32-bit CardBus slot on either side of laptop
?? 32 MB memory or greater
?? 300 MHz processor or higher
?? 32 MB memory or greater
?? 300 MHz processor or higher
?? Desktop PC with PC card-PCI adapter
?? Microsoft Window 2000/Windows Millennium Edition/Windows 98 Second Edition/Windows XP/Windows NT 4.0 (with Service Pack 6) 5 2. Windows 2000 This chapter describes the Windows 2000 driver installation. Driver Installation (First-Time Install) This section describes the first-time installation for the driver for Windows 2000. If you have a previously installed driver, refer to the section Driver Installation (Previous Driver Installed). We recommend that you remove any existing drivers (NDIS, DK, or TDI) on the PC system before installing the Version 1.0 release of the NDIS driver. See Section Driver Uninstallation for the instruction on how to remove previous driver releases. Insert the Wireless Network Adapter into a 32-bit CardBus slot and follow these steps to install the NDIS driver:
1. Wait for the following dialog box to display. 2. Click Next to continue. 3. Choose Search for a suitable driver for my device
(recommended) Insert the Release CD in your CD-ROM drive. 4. Click Next. 5. 6. Choose Specify a location under Optional search locations. 7. Click Next to continue. 8. Browse to the location where the NDIS driver is located
(assuming D is the CD-ROM drive),the default folder is D:\ndi
\bin \production \ndi 5. 9. Click OK to continue. 10. When you find the driver installation file (net5211.inf),click Next to continue. 11. The NDIS evaluation driver currently does not have a digital signature from Microsoft. Therefore, Windows 2000 show a warning message. Click Yes to proceed with driver installation. 7 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual 12. Click Finish to complete the driver installation. See Device Configuration for the device configuration information. Driver Installation (Previous Driver Installed) If the system already has a previous release of the NDIS installed, Windows does not prompt for the device driver when the WLAN Card is inserted. Follow the step below to update the NDIS driver:
1. Start System Properties from Control Panel. Under Hardware tab, click Device Manager. 2. Within Device Manager, right-click Wireless Network Adapter under Network adapters device node, and click Properties. 3. Click Update Driver...from the Driver tab. Note the Driver Version that you are updating from. You may need to verify this field again after driver update completes to make sure the driver has been updated correctly. 4. Click Next to continue. 5. Choose Display a list of the known drivers for this device so that is can choose a specific driver. 6. Click Next to continue. 7. Insert the Release CD into your CD-ROM drive. Click Have Disk...to continue. 8. Click Browse to specify the location where the NDIS driver is located (assuming D is the CD-ROM drive),the default folder is D:\ndi \bin \production \ndis5. 9. Click OK to continue. 10. Select Wireless Network Adapter from the list. 11. Click Next to continue. 12. Click Yes to continue when Windows displays the warning message. 13. Click Next to proceed with the installation. 14. The NDIS evaluation driver currently does not have a digital signature from Microsoft. Therefore, Windows 2000 show a warning message. Click Yes to proceed with driver installation. 8 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual 15. Click Finish. 16. Note that Driver Version should display 2.0 as the major revision number. Click OK to continue. 17. Click Yes to restart system. 18. After the system restarts, the Wireless Network Adapter will display under Network adapter in the Device Manager. Proceed to Section Device Configuration for device configuration information. Driver Uninstallation This section provides information about uninstallation procedures required for upgrading the NDIS driver from previous software release .If the system does not have previously installed versions of the NDIS driver and you wish to remove the newly installed driver from the system, proceed to Step 4. The NDIS driver since Release 1.0 no longer leverages the Transport Driver Interface (TDI) protocol to provide the LinkMon programming interface. The TDI protocol should be uninstalled. Follow these step to uninstall the TDI protocol:
1. To remove the NDIS driver from the OS, go to Device Manager, right-click Wireless Network Adapter, and choose Uninstall. 2. Click OK to unInstall the device. 3. When the device is uninstalled from Device Manager, search for and delete the driver file that reside in the system. a. Go to the Start menu and choose Search For Files or Folders... b. Enter oem*.infin the Search for file or folders named field,and enter Atheros in the Containing text: field. c. Click Search Now. A few files matching these criteria are possible, if previous drivers have not been removed properly. d. Choose the files that have been found and delete them from the system. 9 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual 4. To complete the uninstallation, remove the file ar5211.sys from the \WINNT \system32 \drivers folder. Device Configuration Configuration of the Wireless Network Adapter can be done through the NIC Configuration utility found in the Windows Control Panel. The device can be set to work in one of two modes:
infrastructure mode or ad hoc mode. In infrastructure mode, the Wireless Network adapter participates in a basic service set (BSS) as a station, and communicate with other stations through an AP. In ad hoc mode, a Wireless Network Adapter work within an independent basic service set (IBSS). All stations communicate directly with other station without an AP. To configure the Wireless Network Adapter:
1. In the Device Manager, right-click Wireless Network Adapter, and click Properties to access the properties of the adapter. 2. Configuration additions, modifications, and deletions are made under the Setting tab of the Wireless Network Adapter 3. Select one of the configurations under the configuration list, and click Modify to show the Network Configuration Settings screen. This property sheet has two pages: General and Security. Table 2-1 provide descriptions for the fields on the General page. Table 2-1. General Dialog Field Descriptions Field Name Description Configuration Name This field identifies the configuration. This name must be unique. Configuration names are case insensitive. Network Name (SSID) This is the name of the IEEE 802.11a wireless network, for example, 802.11a Wireless Network. This field has a maximum limit of 32 character . Network Connection This field defines whether the STA is configured for an ad hoc or infrastructure network. 10 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual Power Savings Locally Administered Address (LAA) This field allow the configuration of power management option .The option are Off, Normal, and Maximum. Power management is disabled when ad hoc mode is selected in the Network Connection field. When the Power Saving setting is Off, the adapter receives full power from the PC. When the Power Saving setting is Normal, the driver turns off power to the adapter for brief period over briefly-spaced time intervals. When the Power Saving setting is Maximum, the driver turn off power to the adapter for longer periods over more widely-spaced time intervals. This field defines the locally administered MAC address. Table 2-2 provides descriptions for the fields on the Security dialog. All encryption key fields are displayed only when initially entered. On subsequent entry into the security property page, the field are masked. The keys must be entered as hexadecimal digit . Table 2-2.Security Dialog Field Descriptions Field Name Enable Security Default Encryption Key Unique Key Shared Keys Key Length Description Completely enables or disables the IEEE 802.11 wired equivalent privacy (WEP)security feature. Defines the type of encryption key to use (either Unique Key or Shared Key ).This field allows you to elect only a key
(Unique, First, Second, Third, or Fourth) whose corresponding field has been completed. Defines the unique encryption key for security for the current network configuration. In ad hoc mode, this encryption key type is not used. To enable security using a Unique Key, This field must be populated. These fields define a set of shared encryption keys. To enable security using Shared Key ,at least one Shared Key field must be populated. Defines the length for each encryption key. A the Key Length is changed, the number of available characters in the field is changed automatically. If after a key is entered the length is adjusted to a smaller number, the key is automatically truncated to fit. If the length is increased 11 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual again, the field is not automatically updated to it previous value. Selecting Encryption Types We support two encryption type ;Wired Equivalent Privacy
(WEP)and Advanced Encryption Security (AES).While WEP is universally supported and commonly used, AES provide a much higher level of security, that is, frames encrypted with AES are more difficult to decipher without knowing the key. To use AES, you must specify a unique key (refer to Table 2-2). NOTE: AES is not supported in ad hoc mode, since ad hoc mode does not support unique keys. Select the encryption type automatically (auto) or manually at both the STA and AP. By specifying auto, the STA and AP will negotiate and attempt to use AES before exchanging data packets. If AES is not supported by the STA or AP,WEP is used. Manual selection allows you to specify the encryption type. By default, the STA is set to auto and will first attempt to use AES, and will only use WEP if the AP supports, or is configured for WEP only. Use the Advanced tab on the Wireless Network Adapter dialog to change the encryption type. Table 2-3 provides descriptions for the fields on the Network Configuration Setting, Advanced tab dialog. Table 2-3. Advanced Dialog Field Descriptions Field Name Wireless Mode Ad Hoc Mode 802.11a Turbo 12 Description Specifies 802.11a,802.11b,or autoselect operation. Autoselect allows the use of both 802.11a and 802.11b mode . Specifies a band to establish an ad hoc network if no matching SSID is found after scanning all available mode . Enables or disables turbo mode for 802.11a radio space.. Once enabled, both 802.11a and 802.11a turbo modes are scanned. Wireless Broadband Router User Manual 802.11b Range Encryption Type Scan Mode Transmit Power QoS Selects either normal (uses all four 802.11b transmit rates)or extended range (limits network to 1 or 2 Mbit range). Specifies the encryption types: _ WEP -u e only WEP encryption. _ AES -only associate with Acce Point that can successfully negotiate AES encryption. _ Auto -Allow the STA and AP to negotiate the encryption type. Specifies passive, or auto canning (use country code to select the type of scan, active or passive). Select full, half, quarter, eighth, or minimum transmit power. Disables or enables the station to cooperate in a network using Quality of Service. To change the encryption type, take the following step:
1. From the Network Configuration Settings dialog Advanced tab, use the Encryption Type drop-down menu to specify the encryption type. 2. Click OK to enable your change. CAUTION: To successfully transmit data frames, specify a unique key. NOTE: If AES and ad hoc are both specified, the STA will use WEP. NOTE: Fragmentation is currently not supported using AES. Infrastructure Mode To configure an Wireless Network Adapter in infrastructure mode:
1. Ensure that the Locally Administered Address checkbox is unchecked. 2. Enter information in the General dialog as summarized in Table 2-4. 13 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual Table 2-4. Infrastructure Mode General Dialog Field Descriptions Field Name Configuration Name Network Name (SSID) Description This field identifies the configuration. This name must be unique. Configuration names are case insensitive. This is the name of the IEEE 802.11a wireless network, for example, 802.11a Wireless Network. This field has a maximum limit of 32 characters. If the field is left blank, the STA connect to the AP with the best signal strength. Network Connection AP (infrastructure). Power Savings Locally Administered Address
(LAA) This field allow the configuration of power management options. The options are Off, Normal and Maximum. This field defines the locally administered MAC address. To enter a value in the address field, the check box needs to be selected. Usually infrastructure mode is used in an enterprise environment where APs are installed and maintained by corporate IT staff. Much of the data in the enterprise network is confidential. It is important to configure security to make sure only stations with appropriate keys can receive sensitive data. The Wireless Network Adapter and NDIS driver support key lengths of 40 bits,104 bits, and 128 bits. Typically, the appropriate encryption and decryption keys are supplied by the corporate IT staff. Ad Hoc Mode An ad hoc network usually is a short-lived network with a small number of stations. The network is usually created for a special purpose such as exchanging data between friend ,or between customer and client. Because the duration of the ad hoc network tends to be limited, Power Saving and Security features are not typically a requirement. For ad hoc network activity, the Power Saving and Security features can be disabled. Currently, shared key security is supported in ad hoc mode. Future software implementation will provide unique key support. 14 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual In ad hoc mode, a station scans the air for an existing BSS. If no BSS is found, the station establishes a BSS for other stations to join. When other stations scan the air and find an established BSS in place, they join that BSS to form an ad hoc network. If a specific set of stations requires ad hoc network connectivity, it is recommended to have one station establish a BSS first before configuring the remaining stations. This prevent the scenario of several stations trying to form a BSS at the same time, which can result in multiple singular BSSs being established, rather than a single BSS with multiple stations. Table 2-5 summarize the field description for the General dialog in ad hoc mode. TCP/IP Setup After configuring the Wireless Network Adapter through the Network Control Panel, the TCP/IP address for the network device must be configured. 1. Open the Control Panel and click Network and Dial-up Connections. 2. Find the Local Area Connectionthat is associated with the Wireless Network Adapter. Right-click that connection, and click Properties. Table 2-5. Ad Hoc Mode General Dialog Field Descriptions Field Name Configuration Name Network Name (SSID) Description This field identifies the configuration. This name must be unique. Configuration names are case insensitive. This is the name of the IEEE 802.11a wireless network, for example, 802.11a Wireless Network. This field has a maximum limit of 32 characters. If the field is left blank, the STA connect to the AP with the best signal strength. Network Connection AP (infrastructure). Power Savings This field allow the configuration of power management options. The options are Off, Normal 15 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual and Maximum. Locally Administered Address
(LAA) This field defines the locally administered MAC address. To enter a value in the address field, the check box needs to be selected. 3. Select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and click Properties . 4. Click Use the following IP address and input an IP address and Subnet mask. Assigning an IP address and Subnet mask allows stations to operate in infrastructure mode and to have Internet access. Default gatewayand DNS serverinformation is also required. IP configuration information
(DHCP or assigned IP address, Gateway and DNS server IP addresses) is usually obtained from the corporate IT staff. 5. After obtaining IP configuration information from the appropriate IT staff, click OK in both Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties and Local Area Connection Properties to complete the IP configuration.. 6. Choose Start >Programs >Accessories >Command Prompt to open the DOS command prompt window. 7. Type ipconfig at the C::\>prompt to determine if the TCP/IP configuration has taken effect. To test IP connectivity in ad hoc or infrastructure mode, use the ping <ipaddress> command. When a TCP/IP connection is established, the LinkMon utility can be used to monitor the Wireless Network Adapter operating status. 8. To map the drive on another machine to your computer, right-click My Computer and click Map Network Drive.... 9. After mapping the drive, you can perform file transfers, use video streaming applications, and all other network data transfer that are normally performed with wired 10/100 Ethernet connections. 16 3. Windows Millennium Edition This chapter describes the Windows Millennium Edition network driver installation. Driver Installation We recommend that you remove any existing NDIS driver on the PC y tem before installing Version 1.0 release of the NDIS driver. See Driver Uninstallation for the instructions on how to remove previous driver releases. When the system no longer has the NDIS driver Installed, insert the Wireless Network Adapter into a 32-bit CardBus slot, and follow these teps to install the NDIS driver:
1. Wait for the following dialog box to appear. Choose Specify the location of the driver (Advanced), and click Next to continue. 2. Choose Search for the best driver for your device.(Recommended). a. Select Specify a location. b. Click Browse to locate the NDIS driver. The default folder is E:\ndis \bin \production \ndis5 (assuming E: is the CD-ROM drive). c. Click Next to continue. 3. When the driver installation file (NET5210B.INF)has been found, 4. Click Finish to continue, and restart the system to complete driver installation. Refer to Device Configuration for device configuration. 17 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual Driver Uninstallation This section provides uninstallation procedure for removing the NDIS driver from the system. Uninstallation is recommended for upgrading the NDIS driver from previous driver releases. 1. Remove the NDIS driver from the OS:
a. Go to Start >Search >For Files or Folders...,and search for the INF file containing the Atheros text string under the
\WINDOWS \INF folder. Be sure to include subfolders in the search criteria. b. When Atheros net5211.inf has been found, delete it by right-clicking the file and choose Delete. 2. From Control Panel, launch the System Properties window. Select Wireless Network Adapter from Device Manager, and click Remove to uninstall the 3. Click OK to confirm the removal of the device. 4. Restart the system to complete un-installation. Device Configuration Configuration of the Wireless Network Adapter can be done through the NIC Configuration utility found in the Windows Control Panel. Similar to Windows 2000,the device can be set to work in one of two modes: infrastructure mode or ad hoc mode. Please refer to Device Configuration for more details on these network connection type . To launch the configuration utility, go to Control Panel and double-click on the NIC Configuration icon. The configuration utility allows addition, modification, and deletion of the configuration profile .Select one of the existing configuration profiles under the configuration list to modify, or click New to add a new configuration profile. Refer to Infrastructure Mode and Ad Hoc Mode to set up the station to work in infrastructure mode and ad hoc mode. 18 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual Selecting Encryption Types We support two encryption type ;Wired Equivalent Privacy
(WEP)and Advanced Encryption Security (AES). Refer Selecting Encryption Types in chapter 2 for details. TCP/IP Configuration After configuring the Wireless Network Adapter network adapter properties, the TCP/IP address for the network device needs to be configured. 1. From Control Panel, launch the Network properties window. 2. Select TCP/IP .Wireless Network Adapter and click Properties. Depending on the type of network the station connects to, Gateway and DNS Configuration information can also be required. IP configuration information (DHCP or assigned IP address, Gateway and DNS server IP addresses) is usually obtained from the corporate IT staff. For a simple demonstration, the station is assigned a static IP address. 3. From TCP/IP Properties, choose IP Address and select Specify an IP address. Input an IP address and subnet mask. Assigning an IP address and subnet mask allows the station to interact with the AP or other stations in the same IP subnet. 4. Click OK to complete the TCP/IP configuration, and re tart the system for the changes to take effect. 5. Choose Start >Programs >Accessories >Command Prompt to open the DOS command prompt window. Type ipconfig to determine if the TCP/IP configuration has taken effect. To test IP connectivity in ad hoc or infrastructure mode, use the ping
<ipaddress>command. When a TCP/IP connection is established, the LinkMon utility can be used to monitor the Wireless Network Adapter operating status. 19 4. Windows XP This chapter describes the Windows XP driver installation. Driver Installation (First-time Install) We recommend that you remove any existing drivers on the PC system before installing Version 1.0 release of the NDIS driver. Refer to Driver Uninstallation for the instructions on how to remove previous driver release. With no existing NDIS driver installed, insert the Wireless Network Adapter into a 32-bit CardBus slot, and follow these steps to install the NDIS driver:
1. Wait for the following dialog box to appear. Choose Install from a list or specific location (Advanced), and click Next to continue.. 2. Under Search for the be t driver in these locations, choose Include this location in the search and click Browse to find the location of the NDIS driver. When the driver location has been identified, click Next to continue. 3. The NDIS evaluation driver currently does not have a digital signature from Microsoft. Therefore, Windows XP shows a warning message. Click Continue Anyw ay to proceed with driver installation. 4. Click Finish to complete driver installation, and refer to Device Configuration for device configuration. Driver Uninstallation This section provides uninstallation procedure for removing the NDIS driver from the system. Uninstallation is recommended for upgrading the NDIS driver from previous driver releases. 21 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual 1. To remove the NDIS driver from the OS, go to Device Manager, right click Wireless Network Adapter, and choose Uninstall. 2. Click OK to uninstall the device. 3. When the device is uninstalled from Device Manager, search for and delete the driver installation file that reside in the system. a. Go to Start and choose Search >All files and folder, enter oem*.inf in the All or part of the file name field. b. Enter Atheros in the A word or phrase in the file field. c. Enter C:\WINNT \INF in the Look in field, where C: is the drive letter of where Windows XP is installed. d. Click Search to find the driver installation file. 4. A file matching the search criteria is displayed. Choose this file and delete it from the system. Device Configuration Windows XP zero-configuration functionality allows you to select and join a wireless network without having to configure the device separately. You can decide to choose the default parameters and directly proceed to zero-configuration in Window XP Wireless Network Configuration. Similar to Windows 2000,configuration of the Wireless Network Adapter can be done through the Network Control Panel (NCP) in adapter properties. You can set the Wireless Network Adapter to work in one of two modes: infrastructure mode or ad hoc mode. Refer to Device Configuration for more details on these network connection type. To launch NCP go to Device Manager, right-click Wireless Network Adapter, and select Properties to access to the properties of the adapter. Configuration additions, modifications, and deletions are made under the Setting tab of Wireless Network Adapter Properties. 22 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual Select one of the configuration under the configuration, click Modify or New and complete the steps in Infrastructure Mode or Ad Hoc Mode to set up the station to work in infrastructure mode or ad hoc mode, respectively. Selecting Encryption Types We support two encryption type ;Wired Equivalent Privacy
(WEP)and Advanced Encryption Security (AES). Refer Selecting Encryption Types in chapter 2 for details. TCP/IP Setup After configuring the Wireless Network Adapter through the Network Control Panel, the TCP/IP address for the network device needs to be configured. 1. From the Start menu, choose Programs >Accessories
>Communications >Network Connections. Find the Local Area Connection that is associated with the Wireless Network Adapter. Right-click that connection and click Properties. 2. Select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and click Properties. 3. Click Use the following IP address and input an IP address and Subnet mask. Depending on the type of network the station connects to, Gateway and DNS Configuration information can also be required. IP configuration information
(DHCP or assigned IP address, Gateway and DNS server IP addresses) is usually obtained from the corporate IT staff. For a simple demonstration, the station is assigned a static IP address. 4. Click OK in both Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties and Local Area Connection Properties to complete the IP configuration.. 7. To map the drive on another machine to your computer, from the Start menu, choose My Computer and right-click to select Map Network Drive.... 23 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual 8. Assign the drive letter that map to the network-hared folder and specify the shared folder information. Click Finish to map the drive. 9. After mapping the drive, you can perform file transfers, video streaming, and all other network data transfers that are normally performed with wired 10/100 Ethernet connection . Windows XP Wireless Network Configuration Aside from using the Network Control Panel (NCP)to configure the Wireless Network Adapter, Windows XP provides zero-configuration functionality that automatically tries to connect the STA to available wireless networks in the following order:
?? Infrastructure mode with valid WEP key
?? Infrastructure mode with unauthenticated acce for tation without WEP keys
?? Ad hoc mode To configure wireless network setting through the Windows XP user interface:
1. Open Network Connections from Control Panel. 2. Right-click the Local Area Network Connection icon (pertinent to Wireless Network Adapter). 3. Click Enable to enable the device first, and then click Properties. 4. On the Wireless Networks tab, select the Use Windows to configure my wireless network settings check box to enable automatic wireless network configuration. Refer to Infrastructure Mode or Ad Hoc Mode to set up the station to connect to an infrastructure or ad hoc network. If you want to use non-default setting for power saving and turbo mode, you should set those parameter through the NCP method
(refer to Device Configuration).Then use Wireless Network tab to select network name, network type, and encryption keys. Note that you can disable automatic wireless network configuration, and revert back to using NCP configuration settings, by clearing 24 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual the Use Windows to configure my wireless network setting check box. Infrastructure Mode To set up automatic wireless network configuration to connect to an existing Access Point (infrastructure network),follow these steps:
1. Click the network name under Available networks in the Wireless Networks tab, and click Configure. You can update the list of available networks that are within range of your computer by clicking Refresh under Available Networks. If the network requires WEP, then the Data encryption (WEP enabled) check box is elected by default in Wireless Network Properties. 2. 3. Select The key is provided for me automatically check box if the WEP key is automatically provided for you. The driver will then use the Default Encryption key from the current NCP configuration profile irrespective of the network name. You may choose to enter the WEP key by clearing this check box and manually entering the network key and key length. NOTE: The key format must be hexadecimal digits and the key length is limited to 104-bit in Window XP, as opposed to 128-bit key supported by NDIS driver in the NCP configuration interface. If the network that you are connecting to requires 128-bit WEP key, then it is recommended that you disable Windows XP automatic wireless network configuration and use NCP configuration instead. Ad Hoc Mode To connect to an existing computer-to-computer (ad hoc)network:
1. Click the ad hoc network name under Available networks in 2. the Wireless Network tab, and click Configure. In Wireless s Network Properties, the This is a computer-to-computer (ad hoc) network; wireless access point 25 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual are not used check box is selected by default. You may choose to enable WEP by selecting the Data encryption
(WEP enabled) check box and the Network Authentication
(Shared mode) check box.. 3. Select the The key is provided for me automatically check box if the shared key is automatically provided for you. The driver will then use the Default Encryption key from the current NCP configuration profile irrespective of the network name. You may choose to enter the shared key by clearing this check box and enter the key and key length manually. NOTE: The key format must be hexadecimal digits and the key length is limited to 104-bit in Windows XP as opposed to 128-bit key supported by NDIS driver in the NCP configuration interface. If the network that you are connecting to require 128-bit WEP key then it is recommended that you disable Windows XP automatic wireless network configuration and use NCP configuration instead. 4. If you want to connect to an ad hoc network, but both ad hoc and infrastructure networks are within range of your computer, then click Advanced in the Wireless Network tab and then select Computer-to-computer (ad hoc)networks only .Note that if you want the station to start it own ad hoc network, the Computer-to-computer (ad hoc) networks only option should be selected. There should be no network active from the preferred list and the Automatically connect to non-preferred network check box should be cleared.. Connect to an Available Wireless Network When there is more than one available network detected by Windows XP, the OS will prompt you to select and connect to a preferred network. To connect to an available wireless network, right-click the network connection icon in the notification area, and then click View Available Wireless Network. In Connect to Wireless Network, under Available network, select the wireless network that you want to connect to. If a network key is required and is automatically provided for you, then leave Network key blank. If the network key is not automatically 26 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual provided for you, then type the key in Network key. Click Connect to establish the network connection. If you are either unable to make a connection to the wireless network that you selected or need to configure additional wireless network connection settings, click Advanced in Connect to Wireless Network, and the Wireless Networks tab will appear. You can configure a new wireless network connection by clicking Add, and specifying the network name (SSID)in Wireless Network Properties, and the wireless network key settings, if needed. If the network connection that you are configuring is an ad hoc network, then select This is a computer-to-computer (ad hoc)network; wireless access point are not used check box. The network will be added under Preferred networks in the Wireless Networks tab. You can change the order of the preferred networks by selecting the wireless network that you want to reposition on the list, and then clicking Move up or Move down. You can change the wireless network connection settings of a preferred network by selecting the wireless network, clicking Properties, and then changing the setting as needed. To remove a wireless s network from the list of preferred networks, select the wireless network that you want to remove, and then click Remove. If a network is not defined in the preferred networks list, but you know it is available and you want to automatically connect to it, then click Advanced in the Wireless Networks tab, and select the Automatically connect to non-preferred network check box. 27 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual 5. Regulatory Compliance Information Radio Frequency Interference Requirements This device is restricted to indoor use due to its operation in the 5.15 to 5.25 GHz frequency range. FCC requires this product to be used indoors for the frequency range 5.15 to 5.25 GHz to reduce the potential for harmful interference to co-channel Mobile Satellite systems. High power radar are allocated as primary user of the 5.25 to 5.35 GHz and 5.65 to 5.85 GHz bands. These radar stations can cause interference with and / or damage this device. DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY We Askey Computer Corp. 10F, No.119, Chienkang Rd., Chung-Ho, Taipei, Taiwan R.O.C. declare under our sole responsibility that the product WLC221-D4 /
BCP3483U Wireless LAN CardBus Card Complies with Part 15 of FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions:
(1)the device may not cause harmful interference, and (2)this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. FCC WARNING This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limit for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. The equipment generate, use, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. 28 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, with can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following methods:
_ Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna. _ Increase the separation between the equipment and the receiver. _ Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that which the receiver is connected. _ Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help. _ Modifications made to the product, unless expressly approved by Askey Computer Corp., could void the users authority to operate the equipment. RF Exposure In August 1996 the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of the United States with its action in Report and Order FCC 96-326 adopted an updated safety standard for human exposure to radio frequency electromagnetic energy emitted by FCC regulated transmitters. Those guidelines are consistent with the safety standard previously set by both U.S. and international standards bodies. The design of this device complies with the FCC guidelines and these international standards. Use only the supplied or an approved antenna. Unauthorized antennas, modifications, or attachments could result in violation of FCC regulations. This device can not co-locate or operate with any other transmitter. Laptop Computer Operation This device was tested with an IBM laptop (Thinkpad 2628) computer and a Toshiba laptop (Satellite Pro 6100 System) computer with PCMCIA slot on either side of the computer for typical body-worn operations with the device directly contacted to the human body to the back and side of the laptop computer. This device can be used in laptop computers with substantially similar physical dimensions, construction, and electrical and RF 29 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual characteristics. To maintain compliance with FCC RF exposure compliance requirements, maintain at least 1.5 cm to nearby person. 30
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Wireless LAN Card User Guide No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form by any means without the prior written permission. Other trademarks or brand names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Nov 2002, Rev01 Contents About this Document..................................................................iii Audience......................................................................................iv 1. Introduction........................................................5 Package Contents ...................................................................... 5 System Requirements................................................................ 5 2. Windows 2000 ..................................................7 Driver Installation (First-Time Install)....................................... 7 Driver Installation (Previous Driver Installed)......................... 8 Driver Uninstallation ................................................................... 9 Device Configuration................................................................10 Selecting Encryption Types.....................................................12 Infrastructure Mode.........................................................13 Ad Hoc Mode ...................................................................14 TCP/IP Setup ...................................................................15 3. Windows Millennium Edition.........................17 Driver Installation......................................................................17 Driver Uninstallation .................................................................18 Device Configuration................................................................18 Selecting Encryption Types.....................................................19 TCP/IP Configuration ...............................................................19 4. Windows XP ....................................................21 Driver Installation (First-time Install)......................................21 Driver Uninstallation .................................................................21 Device Configuration................................................................22 Selecting Encryption Types.....................................................23 TCP/IP Setup.............................................................................23 i Wireless Broadband Router User Manual Windows XP Wireless Network Configuration .....................24 Infrastructure Mode.........................................................25 Ad Hoc Mode ...................................................................25 Connect to an Available Wireless Network.................26 5. Regulatory Compliance Information............28 Radio Frequency Interference Requirements ......................28 DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY......................................28 FCC WARNING ........................................................................28 RF Exposure..............................................................................29 ii Preface This user's guide provides the necessary information for first-time users to successfully install the Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS) driver. This guide al o provides information for user who wish to upgrade the NDIS driver from previous releases. This guide describe the step required to Install NDIS driver for the Wireless Network Adapter in Windows 2000,Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows XP, and Windows NT 4.0. This guide also includes detailed instruction for configuring the PC Card device, or IEEE 802.11a station (STA), to interact with an access point (AP) in infrastructure mode and with other STAs in ad hoc mode. You should also read this before proceeding to install the Wireless Network Adapter and NDIS driver in the targeted operating system (OS) environment. About this Document The document consists of the following chapters and appendix:
Chapter 1 Introduction Hardware, Software, and System Requirements. Chapter 2 Windows 2000 Installation/Uninstallation Procedure and Device/Network Configuration for Windows 2000. Chapter 3 Windows 98 Second Edition Installation/Uninstallation Procedures and Device/Network Configurations for Windows 98 Second Edition. Chapter 4 Windows XP Installation/Uninstallation Procedure and Device/Network Configuration for Windows XP. iii Wireless Broadband Router User Manual Audience This document is intended for customers who wish to install and evaluate the Wireless Station in the supported Microsoft Window environments. iv 1. Introduction The Wireless Network Adapter is an IEEE 802.11a two-chip solution reference design based on the Atheros chipset. This reference design implements a half-duplex, Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) baseband processor supporting all IEEE 802.11a data rates (6 to 54 Mbp) and 802.11b.It al o supports the Atheros Turbo Mode TM supporting data rates up to 108 Mbps .The host interface is compatible with the PC Card 7.1 standard. Package Contents Make sure the following materials are available before you begin:
Release CD, or electronic equivalent Wireless Network Adapter System Requirements Laptop PC containing:
Card-PCI adapter) 32-bit CardBus slot (or Desktop PC with PC 32 MB memory or greater 300 MHz processor or higher Microsoft Window 2000/Windows Millennium Edition/Windows 98 Second Edition/Windows XP/Windows NT 4.0 (with Service Pack 6) 5
2. Windows 2000 This chapter describes the Windows 2000 driver installation. Driver Installation (First-Time Install) This section describes the first-time installation for the driver for Windows 2000. If you have a previously installed driver, refer to the section Driver Installation (Previous Driver Installed). We recommend that you remove any existing drivers (NDIS, DK, or TDI) on the PC system before installing the Version 1.0 release of the NDIS driver. See Section Driver Uninstallation for the instruction on how to remove previous driver releases. Insert the Wireless Network Adapter into a 32-bit CardBus slot and follow these steps to install the NDIS driver:
1. Wait for the following dialog box to display. 2. Click Next to continue. 3. Choose Search for a suitable driver for my device
(recommended) Insert the Release CD in your CD-ROM drive. 4. Click Next. 5. 6. Choose Specify a location under Optional search locations. 7. Click Next to continue. 8. Browse to the location where the NDIS driver is located
(assuming D is the CD-ROM drive),the default folder is D:\ndi
\bin \production \ndi 5. 9. Click OK to continue. 10. When you find the driver installation file (net5211.inf),click Next to continue. 11. The NDIS evaluation driver currently does not have a digital signature from Microsoft. Therefore, Windows 2000 show a warning message. Click Yes to proceed with driver installation. 7 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual 12. Click Finish to complete the driver installation. See Device Configuration for the device configuration information. Driver Installation (Previous Driver Installed) If the system already has a previous release of the NDIS installed, Windows does not prompt for the device driver when the WLAN Card is inserted. Follow the step below to update the NDIS driver:
1. Start System Properties from Control Panel. Under Hardware tab, click Device Manager. 2. Within Device Manager, right-click Wireless Network Adapter under Network adapters device node, and click Properties. 3. Click Update Driver...from the Driver tab. Note the Driver Version that you are updating from. You may need to verify this field again after driver update completes to make sure the driver has been updated correctly. 4. Click Next to continue. 5. Choose Display a list of the known drivers for this device so that is can choose a specific driver. 6. Click Next to continue. 7. Insert the Release CD into your CD-ROM drive. Click Have Disk...to continue. 8. Click Browse to specify the location where the NDIS driver is located (assuming D is the CD-ROM drive),the default folder is D:\ndi \bin \production \ndis5. 9. Click OK to continue. 10. Select Wireless Network Adapter from the list. 11. Click Next to continue. 12. Click Yes to continue when Windows displays the warning message. 13. Click Next to proceed with the installation. 14. The NDIS evaluation driver currently does not have a digital signature from Microsoft. Therefore, Windows 2000 show a warning message. Click Yes to proceed with driver installation. 8 Error! Style not defined.. Error! Style not defined. 15. Click Finish. 16. Note that Driver Version should display 2.0 as the major revision number. Click OK to continue. 17. Click Yes to restart system. 18. After the system restarts, the Wireless Network Adapter will display under Network adapter in the Device Manager. Proceed to Section Device Configuration for device configuration information. Driver Uninstallation This section provides information about uninstallation procedures required for upgrading the NDIS driver from previous software release .If the system does not have previously installed versions of the NDIS driver and you wish to remove the newly installed driver from the system, proceed to Step 4. The NDIS driver since Release 1.0 no longer leverages the Transport Driver Interface (TDI) protocol to provide the LinkMon programming interface. The TDI protocol should be uninstalled. Follow these step to uninstall the TDI protocol:
1. To remove the NDIS driver from the OS, go to Device Manager, right-click Wireless Network Adapter, and choose Uninstall. 2. Click OK to unInstall the device. 3. When the device is uninstalled from Device Manager, search for and delete the driver file that reside in the system. a. Go to the Start menu and choose Search For Files or Folders... b. Enter oem*.infin the Search for file or folders named field,and enter Atheros in the Containing text: field. c. Click Search Now. A few files matching these criteria are possible, if previous drivers have not been removed properly. d. Choose the files that have been found and delete them from the system. 9 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual 4. To complete the uninstallation, remove the file ar5211.sys from the \WINNT \system32 \drivers folder. Device Configuration Configuration of the Wireless Network Adapter can be done through the NIC Configuration utility found in the Windows Control Panel. The device can be set to work in one of two modes:
infrastructure mode or ad hoc mode. In infrastructure mode, the Wireless Network adapter participates in a basic service set (BSS) as a station, and communicate with other stations through an AP. In ad hoc mode, a Wireless Network Adapter work within an independent basic service set (IBSS). All stations communicate directly with other station without an AP. To configure the Wireless Network Adapter:
1. In the Device Manager, right-click Wireless Network Adapter, and click Properties to access the properties of the adapter. 2. Configuration additions, modifications, and deletions are made under the Setting tab of the Wireless Network Adapter 3. Select one of the configurations under the configuration list, and click Modify to show the Network Configuration Settings screen. This property sheet has two pages: General and Security. Table 2-1 provide descriptions for the fields on the General page. Table 2-1. General Dialog Field Descriptions Field Name Description Configuration Name This field identifies the configuration. This name must be unique. Configuration names are case insensitive. Network Name (SSID) This is the name of the IEEE 802.11a wireless network, for example, 802.11a Wireless Network. This field has a maximum limit of 32 character . Network Connection This field defines whether the STA is configured for an ad hoc or infrastructure network. 10 Error! Style not defined.. Error! Style not defined. This field allow the configuration of power management option .The option are Off, Normal, and Maximum. Power management is disabled when ad hoc mode is selected in the Network Connection field. When the Power Saving setting is Off, the adapter receives full power from the PC. When the Power Saving setting is Normal, the driver turns off power to the adapter for brief period over briefly-spaced time intervals. When the Power Saving setting is Maximum, the driver turn off power to the adapter for longer periods over more widely-spaced time intervals. This field defines the locally administered MA C address. Power Savings Locally Administered Address (LAA) Table 2-2 provides descriptions for the fields on the Security dialog. All encryption key fields are displayed only when initially entered. On subsequent entry into the security property page, the field are masked. The keys must be entered as hexadecimal digit . Table 2-2.Security Dialog Field Descriptions Field Name Enable Security Default Encryption Key Unique Key Shared Keys Key Length Description Completely enables or disables the IEEE 802.11 wired equivalent privacy (WEP)security feature. Defines the type of encryption key to use (either Unique Key or Shared Key ).This field allows you to elect only a key
(Unique, First, Second, Third, or Fourth) whose corresponding field has been completed. Defines the unique encryption key for security for the current network configuration. In ad hoc mode, this encryption key type is not used. To enable security using a Unique Key, This field must be populated. These fields define a set of shared encryption keys. To enable security using Shared Key ,at least one Shared Key field must be populated. Defines the length for each encryption key. A the Key Length is changed, the number of available characters in the field is changed automatically. If after a key is entered the length is adjusted to a smaller number, the key is automatically truncated to fit. If the length is increased 11 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual again, the field is not automatically updated to it previous value. Selecting Encryption Types We support two encryption type ;Wired Equivalent Privacy
(WEP)and Advanced Encryption Security (AES).While WEP is universally supported and commonly used, AES provide a much higher level of security, that is, frames encrypted with AES are more difficult to decipher without knowing the key. To use AES, you must specify a unique key (refer to Table 2-2). NOTE: AES is not supported in ad hoc mode, since ad hoc mode does not support unique keys. Select the encryption type automatically (auto) or manually at both the STA and AP. By specifying auto, the STA and AP will negotiate and attempt to use AES before exchanging data packets. If AES is not supported by the STA or AP,WEP is used. Manual selection allows you to specify the encryption type. By default, the STA is set to auto and will first attempt to use AES, and will only use WEP if the AP supports, or is configured for WEP only. Use the Advanced tab on the Wireless Network Adapter dialog to change the encryption type. Table 2-3 provides descriptions for the fields on the Network Configuration Setting, Advanced tab dialog. Table 2-3. Advanced Dialog Field Descriptions Field Name Wireless Mode Ad Hoc Mode 802.11a Turbo 12 Description Specifies 802.11a,802.11b,or autoselect operation. Autoselect allows the use of both 802.11a and 802.11b mode . Specifies a band to establish an ad hoc network if no matching SSID is found after scanning all available mode . Enables or disables turbo mode for 802.11a radio space.. Once enabled, both 802.11a and 802.11a turbo modes are scanned. 802.11b Range Encryption Type Scan Mode Transmit Power QoS Error! Style not defined.. Error! Style not defined. Selects either normal (uses all four 802.11b transmit rates)or extended range (limits network to 1 or 2 Mbit range). Specifies the encryption types: _ WEP -u e only WEP encryption. _ AES -only associate with Acce Point that can successfully negotiate AES encryption. _ Auto -Allow the STA and AP to negotiate the encryption type. Specifies passive, or auto canning (use country code to select the type of scan, active or passive). Select full, half, quarter, eighth, or minimum transmit power. Disables or enables the station to cooperate in a network using Quality of Service. To change the encryption type, take the following step:
1. From the Network Configuration Settings dialog Advanced tab, use the Encryption Type drop-down menu to specify the encryption type. 2. Click OK to enable your change. CAUTION: To successfully transmit data frames, specify a unique key. NOTE: If AES and ad hoc are both specified, the STA will use WEP. NOTE: Fragmentation is currently not supported using AES. Infrastructure Mode To configure an Wireless Network Adapter in infrastructure mode:
1. Ensure that the Locally Administered Address checkbox is unchecked. 2. Enter information in the General dialog as summarized in Table 2-4. 13 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual Table 2-4. Infrastructure Mode General Dialog Field Descriptions Field Name Configuration Name Network Name (SSID) Description This field identifies the configuration. This name must be unique. Configuration names are case insensitive. This is the name of the IEEE 802.11a wireless network, for example, 802.11a Wireless Network. This field has a maximum limit of 32 characters. If the field is left blank, the STA connect to the AP with the best signal strength. Network Connection AP (infrastructure). Power Savings Locally Administered Address
(LAA) This field allow the configuration of power management options. The options are Off, Normal and Maximum. This field defines the locally administered MAC address. To enter a value in the address field, the check box needs to be selected. Usually infrastructure m ode is used in an enterprise environment where APs are installed and maintained by corporate IT staff. Much of the data in the enterprise network is confidential. It is important to configure security to make sure only stations with appropriate keys can receive sensitive data. The Wireless Network Adapter and NDIS driver support key lengths of 40 bits,104 bits, and 128 bits. Typically, the appropriate encryption and decryption keys are supplied by the corporate IT staff. Ad Hoc Mode An ad hoc network usually is a short-lived network with a small number of stations. The network is usually created for a special purpose such as exchanging data between friend ,or between customer and client. Because the duration of the ad hoc network tends to be limited, Power Saving and Security features are not typically a requirement. For ad hoc network activity, the Power Saving and Security features can be disabled. Currently, shared key security is supported in ad hoc mode. Future software implementation will provide unique key support. 14 Error! Style not defined.. Error! Style not defined. In ad hoc mode, a station scans the air for an existing BSS. If no BSS is found, the station establishes a BSS for other stations to join. When other stations scan the air and find an established BSS in place, they join that BSS to form an ad hoc network. If a specific set of stations requires ad hoc network connectivity, it is recommended to have one station establish a BSS first before configuring the remaining stations. This prevent the scenario of several stations trying to form a BSS at the same time, which can result in multiple singular BSSs being established, rather than a single BSS with multiple stations. Table 2-5 summarize the field description for the General dialog in ad hoc mode. TCP/IP Setup After configuring the Wireless Network Adapter through the Network Control Panel, the TCP/IP address for the network device must be configured. 1. Open the Control Panel and click Network and Dial-up Connections. 2. Find the Local Area Connectionthat is associated with the Wireless Network Adapter. Right-click that connection, and click Properties. Table 2-5. Ad Hoc Mode General Dialog Field Descriptions Field Name Configuration Name Network Name (SSID) Description This field identifies the configuration. This name must be unique. Configuration names are c ase insensitive. This is the name of the IEEE 802.11a wireless network, for example, 802.11a Wireless Network. This field has a maximum limit of 32 characters. If the field is left blank, the STA connect to the AP with the best signal strength. Network Connection AP (infrastructure). Power Savings This field allow the configuration of power management options. The options are Off, Normal 15 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual and Maximum. Locally Administered Address
(LAA) This field defines the locally administered MAC address. To enter a value in the address field, the check box needs to be selected. 3. Select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and click Properties . 4. Click Use the following IP address and input an IP address and Subnet mask. Assigning an IP address and Subnet mask allows stations to operate in infrastructure mode and to have Internet access. Default gatewayand DNS serverinformation is also required. IP configuration information
(DHCP or assigned IP address, Gateway and DNS server IP addresses) is usually obtained from the corporate IT staff. 5. After obtaining IP configuration information from the appropriate IT staff, click OK in both Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties and Local Area Connection Properties to complete the IP configuration.. 6. Choose Start >Programs >Accessories >Command Prompt to open the DOS command prompt window. 7. Type ipconfig at the C::\>prompt to determine if the TCP/IP configuration has taken effect. To test IP connectivity in ad hoc or infrastructure mode, use the ping <ipaddress> command. When a TCP/IP connection is established, the LinkMon utility can be used to monitor the Wireless Network Adapter operating status. 8. To map the drive on another machine to your computer, right-click My Computer and click Map Network Drive.... 9. After mapping the drive, you can perform file transfers, use video streaming applications, and all other network data transfer that are normally performed with wired 10/100 Ethernet connections. 16 3. Windows Millennium Edition This chapter describes the Windows Millennium Edition network driver installation. Driver Installation We recommend that you remove any existing NDIS driver on the PC y tem before installing Version 1.0 release of the NDIS driver. See Driver Uninstallation for the instructions on how to remove previous driver releases. When the system no longer has the NDIS driver Installed, insert the Wireless Network Adapter into a 32-bit CardBus slot, and follow these teps to install the NDIS driver:
1. Wait for the following dialog box to appear. Choose Specify the location of the driver (Advanced), and click Next to continue. 2. Choose Search for the best driver for your device.(Recommended). a. Select Specify a location. b. Click Browse to locate the NDIS driver. The default folder is E:\ndis \bin \production \ndis5 (assuming E: is the CD-ROM drive). c. Click Next to continue. 3. When the driver installation file (NET5210B.INF)has been found, 4. Click Finish to continue, and restart the system to complete driver installation. Refer to Device Configuration for device configuration. 17 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual Driver Uninstallation This section provides uninstallation procedure for removing the NDIS driver from the system. Uninstallation is recommended for upgrading the NDIS driver from previous driver releases. 1. Remove the NDIS driver from the OS:
a. Go to Start >Search >For Files or Folders...,and search for the INF file containing the Atheros text string under the
\WINDOWS \INF folder. Be sure to include subfolders in the search criteria. b. When Atheros net5211.inf has been found, delete it by right-clicking the file and choose Delete. 2. From Control Panel, launch the System Properties window. Select Wireless Network Adapter from Device Manager, and click Remove to uninstall the 3. Click OK to confirm the removal of the device. 4. Restart the system to complete un-installation. Device Configuration Configuration of the Wireless Network Adapter can be done through the NIC Configuration utility found in the Windows Control Panel. Similar to Windows 2000,the device can be set to work in one of two modes: infrastructure mode or ad hoc mode. Please refer to Device Configuration for more details on these network connection type . To launch the configuration utility, go to Control Panel and double-click on the NIC Configuration icon. The configuration utility allows addition, modification, and deletion of the configuration profile .Select one of the existing configuration profiles under the configuration list to modify, or click New to add a new configuration profile. Refer to Infrastructure Mode and Ad Hoc Mode to set up the station to work in infrastructure mode and ad hoc mode. 18 Error! Style not defined.. Error! Style not defined. Selecting Encryption Types We support two encryption type ;Wired Equivalent Privacy
(WEP)and Advanced Encryption Security (AES). Refer Selecting Encryption Types in chapter 2 for details. TCP/IP Configuration After configuring the Wireless Network Adapter network adapter properties, the TCP/IP address for the network device needs to be configured. 1. From Control Panel, launch the Network properties window. 2. Select TCP/IP .Wireless Network Adapter and click Properties. Depending on the type of network the station connects to, Gateway and DNS Configuration information can also be required. IP configuration information (DHCP or assigned IP address, Gateway and DNS server IP addresses) is usually obtained from the corporate IT staff. For a simple demonstration, the station is assigned a static IP address. 3. From TCP/IP Properties, choose IP Address and select Specify an IP address. Input an IP address and subnet mask. Assigning an IP address and subnet mask allows the station to interact with the AP or other stations in the same IP subnet. 4. Click OK to complete the TCP/IP configuration, and re tart the system for the changes to take effect. 5. Choose Start >Programs >Accessories >Command Prompt to open the DOS command prompt window. Type ipconfig to determine if the TCP/IP configuration has taken effect. To test IP connectivity in ad hoc or infrastructure mode, use the ping
<ipaddress>command. When a TCP/IP connection is established, the LinkMon utility can be used to monitor the Wireless Network Adapter operating status. 19 4. Windows XP This chapter describes the Windows XP driver installation. Driver Installation (First-time Install) We recommend that you remove any existing drivers on the PC system before installing Version 1.0 release of the NDIS driver. Refer to Driver Uninstallation for the instructions on how to remove previous driver release. With no existing NDIS driver installed, insert the Wireless Network Adapter into a 32-bit CardBus slot, and follow these steps to install the NDIS driver:
1. Wait for the following dialog box to appear. Choose Install from a list or specific location (Advanced), and click Next to continue.. 2. Under Search for the be t driver in these locations, choose Include this location in the search and click Browse to find the location of the NDIS driver. When the driver location has been identified, click Next to continue. 3. The NDIS evaluation driver currently does not have a digital signature from Microsoft. Therefore, Windows XP shows a warning message. Click Continue Anyway to proceed with driver installation. 4. Click Finish to complete driver installation, and refer to Device Configuration for device configuration. Driver Uninstallation This section provides uninstallation procedure for removing the NDIS driver from the system. Uninstallation is recommended for upgrading the NDIS driver from previous driver releases. 21 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual 1. To remove the NDIS driver from the OS, go to Device Manager, right click Wireless Network Adapter, and choose Uninstall. 2. Click OK to uninstall the device. 3. When the device is uninstalled from Device Manager, search for and delete the driver installation file that reside in the system. a. Go to Start and choose Search >All files and folder, enter oem*.inf in the All or part of the file name field. b. Enter Atheros in the A word or phrase in the file field. c. Enter C:\WINNT \INF in the Look in field, where C: is the drive letter of where Windows XP is installed. d. Click Search to find the driver installation file. 4. A file matching the search criteria is displayed. Choose this file and delete it from the system. Device Configuration Windows XP zero-configuration functionality allows you to select and join a wireless network without having to configure the device separately. You can decide to choose the default parameters and directly proceed to zero-configuration in Window XP Wireless Network Configuration. Similar to Windows 2000,configuration of the Wireless Network Adapter can be done through the Network Control Panel (NCP) in adapter properties. You can set the Wireless Network Adapter to work in one of two modes: infrastructure mode or ad hoc mode. Refer to Device Configuration for more details on these network connection type. To launch NCP go to Device Manager, right-click Wireless Network Adapter, and select Properties to access to the properties of the adapter. Configuration additions, modifications, and deletions are made under the Setting tab of Wireless Network Adapter Properties. 22 Error! Style not defined.. Error! Style not defined. Select one of the configuration under the configuration, click Modify or New and complete the steps in Infrastructure Mode or Ad Hoc Mode to set up the station to work in infrastructure mode or ad hoc mode, respectively. Selecting Encryption Types We support two encryption type ;Wired Equivalent Privacy
(WEP)and Advanced Encryption Security (AES). Refer Selecting Encryption Types in chapter 2 for details. TCP/IP Setup After configuring the Wireless Network Adapter through the Network Control Panel, the TCP/IP address for the network device needs to be configured. 1. From the Start menu, choose Programs >Accessories
>Communications >Network Connections. Find the Local Area Connection that is associated with the Wireless Network Adapter. Right-click that connection and click Properties. 2. Select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and click Properties. 3. Click Use the following IP address and input an IP address and Subnet mask. Depending on the type of network the station connects to, Gateway and DNS Configuration information can also be required. IP configuration information
(DHCP or assigned IP address, Gateway and DNS server IP addresses) is usually obtained from the corporate IT staff. For a simple demonstration, the station is assigned a static IP address. 4. Click OK in both Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties and Local Area Connection Properties to complete the IP configuration.. 7. To map the drive on another machine to your computer, from the Start menu, choose My Computer and right-click to select Map Network Drive.... 23 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual 8. Assign the drive letter that map to the network-hared folder and specify the shared folder information. Click Finish to map the drive. 9. After mapping the drive, you can perform file transfers, video streaming, and all other network data transfers that are normally performed with wired 10/100 Ethernet connection . Windows XP Wireless Network Configuration Aside from using the Network Control Panel (NCP)to configure the Wireless Network Adapter, Windows XP provides zero-configuration functionality that automatically tries to connect the STA to available wireless networks in the following order:
Infrastructure mode with valid WEP key Infrastructure mode with unauthenticated acce for tation without WEP keys Ad hoc mode To configure wireless network setting through the Windows XP user interface:
1. Open Network Connections from Control Panel. 2. Right-click the Local Area Network Connection icon (pertinent to Wireless Network Adapter). 3. Click Enable to enable the device first, and then click Properties. 4. On the Wireless Networks tab, select the Use Windows to configure my wireless network settings check box to enable automatic wireless network configuration. Refer to Infrastructure Mode or Ad Hoc Mode to set up the station to connect to an infrastructure or ad hoc network. If you want to use non-default setting for power saving and turbo mode, you should set those parameter through the NCP method
(refer to Device Configuration).Then use Wireless Network tab to select network name, network type, and encryption keys. Note that you can disable automatic wireless network configuration, and revert back to using NCP configuration settings, by clearing 24 Error! Style not defined.. Error! Style not defined. the Use Windows to configure my wireless network setting check box. Infrastructure Mode To set up automatic wireless network configuration to connect to an existing Access Point (infrastructure network),follow these steps:
1. Click the network name under Available networks in the Wireless Networks tab, and click Configure. You can update the list of available networks that are within range of your computer by clicking Refresh under Available Networks. If the network requires WEP, then the Data encryption (WEP enabled) check box is elected by default in Wireless Network Properties. 2. 3. Select The key is provided for me automatically check box if the WEP key is automatically provided for you. The driver will then use the Default Encryption key from the current NCP configuration profile irrespective of the network name. You may choose to enter the WEP key by clearing this check box and manually entering the network key and key length. NOTE: The key format must be hexadecimal digits and the key length is limited to 104-bit in Window XP, as opposed to 128-bit key supported by NDIS driver in the NCP configuration interface. If the network that you are connecting to requires 128-bit WEP key, then it is recommended that you disable Windows XP automatic wireless network configuration and use NCP configuration instead. Ad Hoc Mode To connect to an existing computer-to-computer (ad hoc)network:
1. Click the ad hoc network name under Available networks in 2. the Wireless Network tab, and click Configure. In Wireless s Network Properties, the This is a computer-to-computer (ad hoc) network; wireless access point 25 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual are not used check box is selected by default. You may choose to enable WEP by selecting the Data encryption
(WEP enabled) check box and the Network Authentication
(Shared mode) check box.. 3. Select the The key is provided for me automatically check box if the shared key is automatically provided for you. The driver will then use the Default Encryption key from the current NCP configuration profile irrespective of the network name. You may choose to enter the shared key by clearing this check box and enter the key and key length manually. NOTE: The key format must be hexadecimal digits and the key length is limited to 104-bit in Windows XP as opposed to 128-bit key supported by NDIS driver in the NCP configuration interface. If the network that you are connecting to require 128-bit WEP key then it is recommended that you disable Windows XP automatic wireless network configuration and use NCP configuration instead. 4. If you want to connect to an ad hoc network, but both ad hoc and infrastructure networks are within range of your computer, then click Advanced in the Wireless Network tab and then select Computer-to-computer (ad hoc)networks only .Note that if you want the station to start it own ad hoc network, the Computer-to-computer (ad hoc) networks only option should be selected. There should be no network active from the preferred list and the Automatically connect to non-preferred network check box should be cleared.. Connect to an Available Wireless Network When there is more than one available network detected by Windows XP, the OS will prompt you to select and connect to a preferred network. To connect to an available wireless network, right-click the network connection icon in the notification area, and then click View Available Wireless Network. In Connect to Wireless Network, under Available network, select the wireless network that you want to connect to. If a network key is required and is automatically provided for you, then leave Network key blank. If the network key is not automatically 26 Error! Style not defined.. Error! Style not defined. provided for you, then type the key in Network key. Click Connect to establish the network connection. If you are either unable to make a connection to the wireless network that you selected or need to configure additional wireless network connection settings, click Advanced in Connect to Wireless Network, and the Wireless Networks tab will appear. You can configure a new wireless network connection by clicking Add, and specifying the network name (SSID)in Wireless Network Properties, and the wireless network key settings, if needed. If the network connection that you are configuring is an ad hoc network, then select This is a computer-to-computer (ad hoc)network; wireless access point are not used check box. The network will be added under Preferred networks in the Wireless Networks tab. You can change the order of the preferred networks by selecting the wireless network that you want to reposition on the list, and then clicking Move up or Move down. You can change the wireless network connection settings of a preferred network by selecting the wireless network, clicking Properties, and then changing the setting as needed. To remove a wireless s network from the list of preferred networks, select the wireless network that you want to remove, and then click Remove. If a network is not defined in the preferred networks list, but you know it is available and you want to automatically connect to it, then click Advanced in the Wireless Networks tab, and select the Automatically connect to non-preferred network check box. 27 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual 5. Regulatory Compliance Information Radio Frequency Interference Requirements This device is restricted to indoor use due to its operation in the 5.15 to 5.25 GHz frequency range. FCC requires this product to be used indoors for the frequency range 5.15 to 5.25 GHz to reduce the potential for harmful interference to co-channel Mobile Satellite systems. High power radar are allocated as primary user of the 5.25 to 5.35 GHz and 5.65 to 5.85 GHz bands. These radar stations can cause interference with and / or damage this device. DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY We Askey Computer Corp. 10F, No.119, Chienkang Rd., Chung-Ho, Taipei, Taiwan R.O.C. declare under our sole responsibility that the product WLC221-D4 /
BCP3483U Wireless LAN CardBus Card Complies with Part 15 of FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions:
(1)the device may not cause harmful interference, and (2)this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. FCC WARNING This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limit for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. The equipment generate, use, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. 28 Error! Style not defined.. Error! Style not defined. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, with can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following methods :
_ Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna. _ Increase the separation between the equipment and the receiver. _ Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that which the receiver is connected. _ Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help. _ Modifications made to the product, unless expressly approved by Askey Computer Corp., could void the users authority to operate the equipment. RF Exposure This device has been tested for compliance with FCC RF Exposure
(SAR) limits in typical laptop configuration. In order to comply with SAR limit established in the ANSI C95.1 standard , it is recommended when using a PC card adapter that the integrated antenna is positioned more than 2.5 cm from your body or nearby persons during extended period of operation. If the antenna is positioned less than 2.5 cm from the user, it is recommended that the user limit exposure time. 29
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Wireless LAN Card User Guide No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form by any means without the prior written permission. Other trademarks or brand names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Nov 2002, Rev01 Contents About this Document..................................................................iii Audience......................................................................................iv 1. Introduction........................................................5 Package Contents ...................................................................... 5 System Requirements................................................................ 5 2. Windows 2000 ..................................................7 Driver Installation (First-Time Install)....................................... 7 Driver Installation (Previous Driver Installed)......................... 8 Driver Uninstallation ................................................................... 9 Device Configuration................................................................10 Selecting Encryption Types.....................................................12 Infrastructure Mode.........................................................13 Ad Hoc Mode ...................................................................14 TCP/IP Setup ...................................................................15 3. Windows Millennium Edition.........................17 Driver Installation......................................................................17 Driver Uninstallation .................................................................18 Device Configuration................................................................18 Selecting Encryption Types.....................................................19 TCP/IP Configuration ...............................................................19 4. Windows XP ....................................................21 Driver Installation (First-time Install)......................................21 Driver Uninstallation .................................................................21 Device Configuration................................................................22 Selecting Encryption Types.....................................................23 TCP/IP Setup.............................................................................23 i Wireless Broadband Router User Manual Windows XP Wireless Network Configuration .....................24 Infrastructure Mode.........................................................25 Ad Hoc Mode ...................................................................25 Connect to an Available Wireless Network.................26 5. Regulatory Compliance Information............28 Radio Frequency Interference Requirements ......................28 DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY......................................28 FCC WARNING ........................................................................28 RF Exposure..............................................................................29 ii Preface This user's guide provides the necessary information for first-time users to successfully install the Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS) driver. This guide al o provides information for user who wish to upgrade the NDIS driver from previous releases. This guide describe the step required to Install NDIS driver for the Wireless Network Adapter in Windows 2000,Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows XP, and Windows NT 4.0. This guide also includes detailed instruction for configuring the PC Card device, or IEEE 802.11a station (STA), to interact with an access point (AP) in infrastructure mode and with other STAs in ad hoc mode. You should also read this before proceeding to install the Wireless Network Adapter and NDIS driver in the targeted operating system (OS) environment. About this Document The document consists of the following chapters and appendix:
Chapter 1 Introduction Hardware, Software, and System Requirements. Chapter 2 Windows 2000 Installation/Uninstallation Procedure and Device/Network Configuration for Windows 2000. Chapter 3 Windows 98 Second Edition Installation/Uninstallation Procedures and Device/Network Configurations for Windows 98 Second Edition. Chapter 4 Windows XP Installation/Uninstallation Procedure and Device/Network Configuration for Windows XP. iii Wireless Broadband Router User Manual Audience This document is intended for customers who wish to install and evaluate the Wireless Station in the supported Microsoft Window environments. iv 1. Introduction The Wireless Network Adapter is an IEEE 802.11a two-chip solution reference design based on the Atheros chipset. This reference design implements a half-duplex, Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) baseband processor supporting all IEEE 802.11a data rates (6 to 54 Mbp) and 802.11b.It al o supports the Atheros Turbo Mode TM supporting data rates up to 108 Mbps .The host interface is compatible with the PC Card 7.1 standard. Package Contents Make sure the following materials are available before you begin:
Release CD, or electronic equivalent Wireless Network Adapter System Requirements Laptop PC containing:
Card-PCI adapter) 32-bit CardBus slot (or Desktop PC with PC 32 MB memory or greater 300 MHz processor or higher Microsoft Window 2000/Windows Millennium Edition/Windows 98 Second Edition/Windows XP/Windows NT 4.0 (with Service Pack 6) 5
2. Windows 2000 This chapter describes the Windows 2000 driver installation. Driver Installation (First-Time Install) This section describes the first-time installation for the driver for Windows 2000. If you have a previously installed driver, refer to the section Driver Installation (Previous Driver Installed). We recommend that you remove any existing drivers (NDIS, DK, or TDI) on the PC system before installing the Version 1.0 release of the NDIS driver. See Section Driver Uninstallation for the instruction on how to remove previous driver releases. Insert the Wireless Network Adapter into a 32-bit CardBus slot and follow these steps to install the NDIS driver:
1. Wait for the following dialog box to display. 2. Click Next to continue. 3. Choose Search for a suitable driver for my device
(recommended) Insert the Release CD in your CD-ROM drive. 4. Click Next. 5. 6. Choose Specify a location under Optional search locations. 7. Click Next to continue. 8. Browse to the location where the NDIS driver is located
(assuming D is the CD-ROM drive),the default folder is D:\ndi
\bin \production \ndi 5. 9. Click OK to continue. 10. When you find the driver installation file (net5211.inf),click Next to continue. 11. The NDIS evaluation driver currently does not have a digital signature from Microsoft. Therefore, Windows 2000 show a warning message. Click Yes to proceed with driver installation. 7 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual 12. Click Finish to complete the driver installation. See Device Configuration for the device configuration information. Driver Installation (Previous Driver Installed) If the system already has a previous release of the NDIS installed, Windows does not prompt for the device driver when the WLAN Card is inserted. Follow the step below to update the NDIS driver:
1. Start System Properties from Control Panel. Under Hardware tab, click Device Manager. 2. Within Device Manager, right-click Wireless Network Adapter under Network adapters device node, and click Properties. 3. Click Update Driver...from the Driver tab. Note the Driver Version that you are updating from. You may need to verify this field again after driver update completes to make sure the driver has been updated correctly. 4. Click Next to continue. 5. Choose Display a list of the known drivers for this device so that is can choose a specific driver. 6. Click Next to continue. 7. Insert the Release CD into your CD-ROM drive. Click Have Disk...to continue. 8. Click Browse to specify the location where the NDIS driver is located (assuming D is the CD-ROM drive),the default folder is D:\ndi \bin \production \ndis5. 9. Click OK to continue. 10. Select Wireless Network Adapter from the list. 11. Click Next to continue. 12. Click Yes to continue when Windows displays the warning message. 13. Click Next to proceed with the installation. 14. The NDIS evaluation driver currently does not have a digital signature from Microsoft. Therefore, Windows 2000 show a warning message. Click Yes to proceed with driver installation. 8 Error! Style not defined.. Error! Style not defined. 15. Click Finish. 16. Note that Driver Version should display 2.0 as the major revision number. Click OK to continue. 17. Click Yes to restart system. 18. After the system restarts, the Wireless Network Adapter will display under Network adapter in the Device Manager. Proceed to Section Device Configuration for device configuration information. Driver Uninstallation This section provides information about uninstallation procedures required for upgrading the NDIS driver from previous software release .If the system does not have previously installed versions of the NDIS driver and you wish to remove the newly installed driver from the system, proceed to Step 4. The NDIS driver since Release 1.0 no longer leverages the Transport Driver Interface (TDI) protocol to provide the LinkMon programming interface. The TDI protocol should be uninstalled. Follow these step to uninstall the TDI protocol:
1. To remove the NDIS driver from the OS, go to Device Manager, right-click Wireless Network Adapter, and choose Uninstall. 2. Click OK to unInstall the device. 3. When the device is uninstalled from Device Manager, search for and delete the driver file that reside in the system. a. Go to the Start menu and choose Search For Files or Folders... b. Enter oem*.infin the Search for file or folders named field,and enter Atheros in the Containing text: field. c. Click Search Now. A few files matching these criteria are possible, if previous drivers have not been removed properly. d. Choose the files that have been found and delete them from the system. 9 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual 4. To complete the uninstallation, remove the file ar5211.sys from the \WINNT \system32 \drivers folder. Device Configuration Configuration of the Wireless Network Adapter can be done through the NIC Configuration utility found in the Windows Control Panel. The device can be set to work in one of two modes:
infrastructure mode or ad hoc mode. In infrastructure mode, the Wireless Network adapter participates in a basic service set (BSS) as a station, and communicate with other stations through an AP. In ad hoc mode, a Wireless Network Adapter work within an independent basic service set (IBSS). All stations communicate directly with other station without an AP. To configure the Wireless Network Adapter:
1. In the Device Manager, right-click Wireless Network Adapter, and click Properties to access the properties of the adapter. 2. Configuration additions, modifications, and deletions are made under the Setting tab of the Wireless Network Adapter 3. Select one of the configurations under the configuration list, and click Modify to show the Network Configuration Settings screen. This property sheet has two pages: General and Security. Table 2-1 provide descriptions for the fields on the General page. Table 2-1. General Dialog Field Descriptions Field Name Description Configuration Name This field identifies the configuration. This name must be unique. Configuration names are case insensitive. Network Name (SSID) This is the name of the IEEE 802.11a wireless netw ork, for example, 802.11a Wireless Network. This field has a maximum limit of 32 character . Network Connection This field defines whether the STA is configured for an ad hoc or infrastructure network. 10 Error! Style not defined.. Error! Style not defined. This field allow the configuration of power management option .The option are Off, Normal, and Maximum. Power management is disabled when ad hoc mode is selected in the Network Connection field. When the Power Saving setting is Off, the adapter receives full power from the PC. When the Power Saving setting is Normal, the driver turns off power to the adapter for brief period over briefly-spaced time intervals. When the Power Saving setting is Maximum, the driver turn off power to the adapter for longer periods over more widely-spaced time intervals. This field defines the locally administered MAC address. Power Savings Locally Administered Address (LAA) Table 2-2 provides descriptions for the fields on the Security dialog. All encryption key fields are displayed only when initially entered. On subsequent entry into the security property page, the field are masked. The keys must be entered as hexadecimal digit . Table 2-2.Security Dialog Field Descriptions Field Name Enable Security Default Encryption Key Unique Key Shared Keys Key Length Description Completely enables or disables the IEEE 802.11 wired equivalent privacy (WEP)security feature. Defines the type of encryption key to use (either Unique Key or Shared Key ).This field allows you to elect only a key
(Unique, First, Second, Third, or Fourth) whose corresponding field has been completed. Defines the unique encryption key for security for the current network configuration. In ad hoc mode, this encryption key type is not used. To enable security using a Unique Key, This field must be populated. These fields define a set of shared encryption keys. To enable security using Shared Key ,at least one Shared Key field must be populated. Defines the length for each encryption key. A the Key Length is changed, the number of available characters in the field is changed automatically. If after a key is entered the length is adjusted to a smaller number, the key is automatically truncated to fit. If the length is increased 11 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual again, the field is not automatically updated to it previous value. Selecting Encryption Types We support two encryption type ;Wired Equivalent Privacy
(WEP)and Advanced Encryption Security (AES).While WEP is universally supported and commonly used, AES provide a much higher level of security, that is, frames encrypted with AES are more difficult to decipher without knowing the key. To use AES, you must specify a unique key (refer to Table 2-2). NOTE: AES is not supported in ad hoc mode, since ad hoc mode does not support unique keys. Select the encryption type automatically (auto) or manually at both the STA and AP. By specifying auto, the STA and AP will negotiate and attempt to use AES before exchanging data packets. If AES is not supported by the STA or AP,WEP is used. Manual selection allows you to specify the encryption type. By default, the STA is set to auto and will first attempt to use AES, and will only use WEP if the AP supports, or is configured for WEP only. Use the Advanced tab on the Wireless Network Adapter dialog to change the encryption type. Table 2-3 provides descriptions for the fields on the Network Configuration Setting, Advanced tab dialog. Table 2-3. Advanced Dialog Field Descriptions Field Name Wireless Mode Ad Hoc Mode 802.11a Turbo 12 Description Specifies 802.11a,802.11b,or autoselect operation. Autoselect allows the use of both 802.11a and 802.11b mode . Specifies a band to establish an ad hoc network if no matching SSID is found after scanning all available mode . Enables or disables turbo mode for 802.11a radio space.. Once enabled, both 802.11a and 802.11a turbo modes are scanned. 802.11b Range Encryption Type Scan Mode Transmit Power QoS Error! Style not defined.. Error! Style not defined. Selects either normal (uses all four 802.11b transmit rates)or extended range (limits network to 1 or 2 Mbit range). Specifies the encryption types: _ WEP -u e only WEP encryption. _ AES -only associate with Acce Point that can successfully negotiate AES encryption. _ Auto -Allow the STA and AP to negotiate the encryption type. Specifies passive, or auto canning (use country code to select the type of scan, active or passive). Select full, half, quarter, eighth, or minimum transmit power. Disables or enables the station to cooperate in a network using Quality of Service. To change the encryption type, take the following step:
1. From the Network Configuration Settings dialog Advanced tab, use the Encryption Type drop-down menu to specify the encryption type. 2. Click OK to enable your change. CAUTION: To successfully transmit data frames, specify a unique key. NOTE: If AES and ad hoc are both specified, the STA will use WEP. NOTE: Fragmentation is currently not supported using AES. Infrastructure Mode To configure an Wireless Network Adapter in infrastructure mode:
1. Ensure that the Locally Administered Address checkbox is unchecked. 2. Enter information in the General dialog as summarized in Table 2-4. 13 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual Table 2-4. Infrastructure Mode General Dialog Field Descriptions Field Name Configuration Name Network Name (SSID) Description This field identifies the configuration. This name must be unique. Configuration names are case insensitive. This is the name of the IEEE 802.11a wireless network, for example, 802.11a Wireless Network. This field has a maximum limit of 32 characters. If the field is left blank, the STA connect to the AP with the best signal strength. Network Connection AP (infrastructure). Power Savings Locally Administered Address
(LAA) This field allow the configuration of power management options. The options are Off, Normal and Maximum. This field defines the locally administered MAC address. To enter a value in the address field, the check box needs to be selected. Usually infrastructure mode is used in an enterprise environment where APs are installed and maintained by corporate IT staff. Much of the data in the enterprise network is confidential. It is important to configure security to make sure only stations with appropriate keys can receive sensitive data. The Wireless Network Adapter and NDIS driver support key lengths of 40 bits,104 bits, and 128 bits. Typically, the appropriate encryption and decryption keys are supplied by the corporate IT staff. Ad Hoc Mode An ad hoc network usually is a short-lived network with a small number of stations. The network is usually created for a special purpose such as exchanging data between friend ,or between customer and client. Because the duration of the ad hoc network tends to be limited, Power Saving and Security features are not typically a requirement. For ad hoc network activity, the Power Saving and Security features can be disabled. Currently, shared key security is supported in ad hoc mode. Future software implementation will provide unique key support. 14 Error! Style not defined.. Error! Style not defined. In ad hoc mode, a station scans the air for an existing BSS. If no BSS is found, the station establishes a BSS for other stations to join. When other stations scan the air and find an established BSS in place, they join that BSS to form an ad hoc network. If a specific set of stations requires ad hoc network connectivity, it is recommended to have one station establish a BSS first before configuring the remaining stations. This prevent the scenario of several stations trying to form a BSS at the same time, which can result in multiple singular BSSs being established, rather than a single BSS with multiple stations. Table 2-5 summarize the field description for the General dialog in ad hoc mode. TCP/IP Setup After configuring the Wireless Network Adapter through the Network Control Panel, the TCP/IP address for the network device must be configured. 1. Open the Control Panel and click Network and Dial-up Connections. 2. Find the Local Area Connectionthat is associated with the Wireless Network Adapter. Right-click that connection, and click Properties. Table 2-5. Ad Hoc Mode General Dialog Field Descriptions Field Name Configuration Name Network Name (SSID) Description This field identifies the configuration. This name must be unique. Configuration names are case insensitive. This is the name of the IEEE 802.11a wireless network, for example, 802.11a Wireless Network. This field has a maximum limit of 32 characters. If the field is left blank, the STA connect to the AP with the best signal strength. Network Connection AP (infrastructure). Power Savings This field allow the configuration of power management options. The options are Off, Normal 15 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual and Maximum. Locally Administered Address
(LAA) This field defines the locally administered MAC address. To enter a value in the address field, the check box needs to be selected. 3. Select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and click Properties . 4. Click Use the following IP address and input an IP address and Subnet mask. Assigning an IP address and Subnet mask allows stations to operate in infrastructure mode and to have Internet access. Default gatewayand DNS serverinformation is also required. IP configuration information
(DHCP or assigned IP address, Gateway and DNS server IP addresses) is usually obtained from the corporate IT staff. 5. After obtaining IP configuration information from the appropriate IT staff, click OK in both Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties and Local Area Connection Properties to complete the IP configuration.. 6. Choose Start >Programs >Accessories >Command Prompt to open the DOS command prompt window. 7. Type ipconfig at the C::\>prompt to determine if the TCP/IP configuration has taken effect. To test IP connectivity in ad hoc or infrastructure mode, use the ping <ipaddress> command. When a TCP/IP connection is established, the LinkMon utility can be used to monitor the Wireless Network Adapter operating status. 8. To map the drive on another machine to your computer, right-click My Computer and click Map Network Drive.... 9. After mapping the drive, you can perform file transfers, use video streaming applications, and all other network data transfer that are normally performed with wired 10/100 Ethernet connections. 16 3. Windows Millennium Edition This chapter describes the Windows Millennium Edition network driver installation. Driver Installation We recommend that you remove any existing NDIS driver on the PC y tem before installing Version 1.0 release of the NDIS driver. See Driver Uninstallation for the instructions on how to remove previous driver releases. When the system no longer has the NDIS driver Installed, insert the Wireless Network Adapter into a 32-bit CardBus slot, and follow these teps to install the NDIS driver:
1. Wait for the following dialog box to appear. Choose Specify the location of the driver (Advanced), and click Next to continue. 2. Choose Search for the best driver for your device.(Recommended). a. Select Specify a location. b. Click Browse to locate the NDIS driver. The default folder is E:\ndis \bin \production \ndis5 (assuming E: is the CD-ROM drive). c. Click Next to continue. 3. When the driver installation file (NET5210B.INF)has been found, 4. Click Finish to continue, and restart the system to complete driver installation. Refer to Device Configuration for device configuration. 17 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual Driver Uninstallation This section provides uninstallation procedure for removing the NDIS driver from the system. Uninstallation is recommended for upgrading the NDIS driver from previous driver releases. 1. Remove the NDIS driver from the OS:
a. Go to Start >Search >For Files or Folders...,and search for the INF file containing the Atheros text string under the
\WINDOWS \INF folder. Be sure to include subfolders in the search criteria. b. When Atheros net5211.inf has been found, delete it by right-clicking the file and choose Delete. 2. From Control Panel, launch the System Properties window. Select Wireless Network Adapter from Device Manager, and click Remove to uninstall the 3. Click OK to confirm the removal of the device. 4. Restart the system to complete un-installation. Device Configuration Configuration of the Wireless Network Adapter can be done through the NIC Configuration utility found in the Windows Control Panel. Similar to Windows 2000,the device can be set to work in one of two modes: infrastructure mode or ad hoc mode. Please refer to Device Configuration for more details on these network connection type . To launch the configuration utility, go to Control Panel and double-click on the NIC Configuration icon. The configuration utility allows addition, modification, and deletion of the configuration profile .Select one of the existing configuration profiles under the configuration list to modify, or click New to add a new configuration profile. Refer to Infrastructure Mode and Ad Hoc Mode to set up the station to work in infrastructure mode and ad hoc mode. 18 Error! Style not defined.. Error! Style not defined. Selecting Encryption Types We support two encryption type ;Wired Equivalent Privacy
(WEP)and Advanced Encryption Security (AES). Refer Selecting Encryption Types in chapter 2 for details. TCP/IP Configuration After configuring the Wireless Network Adapter network adapter properties, the TCP/IP address for the network device needs to be configured. 1. From Control Panel, launch the Network properties window. 2. Select TCP/IP .Wireless Network Adapter and click Properties. Depending on the type of network the station connects to, Gateway and DNS Configuration information can also be required. IP configuration information (DHCP or assigned IP address, Gateway and DNS server IP addresses) is usually obtained from the corporate IT staff. For a simple demonstration, the station is assigned a static IP address. 3. From TCP/IP Properties, choose IP Address and select Specify an IP address. Input an IP address and subnet mask. Assigning an IP address and subnet mask allows the station to interact with the AP or other stations in the same IP subnet. 4. Click OK to complete the TCP/IP configuration, and re tart the system for the changes to take effect. 5. Choose Start >Programs >Accessories >Command Prompt to open the DOS command prompt window. Type ipconfig to determine if the TCP/IP configuration has taken effect. To test IP connectivity in ad hoc or infrastructure mode, use the ping
<ipaddress>command. When a TCP/IP connection is established, the LinkMon utility can be used to monitor the Wireless Network Adapter operating status. 19 4. Windows XP This chapter describes the Windows XP driver installation. Driver Installation (First-time Install) We recommend that you remove any existing drivers on the PC system before installing Version 1.0 release of the NDIS driver. Refer to Driver Uninstallation for the instructions on how to remove previous driver release. With no existing NDIS driver installed, insert the Wireless Network Adapter into a 32-bit CardBus slot, and follow these steps to install the NDIS driver:
1. Wait for the following dialog box to appear. Choose Install from a list or specific location (Advanced), and click Next to continue.. 2. Under Search for the be t driver in these locations, choose Include this location in the search and click Browse to find the location of the NDIS driver. When the driver location has been identified, click Next to continue. 3. The NDIS evaluation driver currently does not have a digital signature from Microsoft. Therefore, Windows XP shows a warning message. Click Continue Anyway to proceed with driver installation. 4. Click Finish to complete driver installation, and refer to Device Configuration for device configuration. Driver Uninstallation This section provides uninstallation procedure for removing the NDIS driver from the system. Uninstallation is recommended for upgrading the NDIS driver from previous driver releases. 21 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual 1. To remove the NDIS driver from the OS, go to Device Manager, right click Wireless Network Adapter, and choose Uninstall. 2. Click OK to uninstall the device. 3. When the device is uninstalled from Device Manager, search for and delete the driver installation file that reside in the system. a. Go to Start and choose Search >All files and folder, enter oem*.inf in the All or part of the file name field. b. Enter Atheros in the A word or phrase in the file field. c. Enter C:\WINNT \INF in the Look in field, where C: is the drive letter of where Windows XP is installed. d. Click Search to find the driver installation file. 4. A file matching the search criteria is displayed. Choose this file and delete it from the system. Device Configuration Windows XP zero-configuration functionality allows you to select and join a wireless network without having to configure the device separately. You can decide to choose the default parameters and directly proceed to zero-configuration in Window XP Wireless Network Configuration. Similar to Windows 2000,configuration of the Wireless Network Adapter can be done through the Network Control Panel (NCP) in adapter properties. You can set the Wireless Network Adapter to work in one of two modes: infrastructure mode or ad hoc mode. Refer to Device Configuration for more details on these network connection type. To launch NCP go to Device Manager, right-click Wireless Network Adapter, and select Properties to access to the properties of the adapter. Configuration additions, modifications, and deletions are made under the Setting tab of Wireless Network Adapter Properties. 22 Error! Style not defined.. Error! Style not defined. Select one of the configuration under the configuration, click Modify or New and complete the steps in Infrastructure Mode or Ad Hoc Mode to set up the station to work in infrastructure mode or ad hoc mode, respectively. Selecting Encryption Types We support two encryption type ;Wired Equivalent Privacy
(WEP)and Advanced Encryption Security (AES). Refer Selecting Encryption Types in chapter 2 for details. TCP/IP Setup After configuring the Wireless Network Adapter through the Network Control Panel, the TCP/IP address for the network device needs to be configured. 1. From the Start menu, choose Programs >Accessories
>Communications >Network Connections. Find the Local Area Connection that is associated with the Wireless Network Adapter. Right-click that connection and click Properties. 2. Select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and click Properties. 3. Click Use the following IP address and input an IP address and Subnet mask. Depending on the type of network the station connects to, Gateway and DNS Configuration information can also be required. IP configuration information
(DHCP or assigned IP address, Gateway and DNS server IP addresses) is usually obtained from the corporate IT staff. For a simple demonstration, the station is assigned a static IP address. 4. Click OK in both Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties and Local Area Connection Properties to complete the IP configuration.. 7. To map the drive on another machine to your computer, from the Start menu, choose My Computer and right-click to select Map Network Drive.... 23 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual 8. Assign the drive letter that map to the network-hared folder and specify the shared folder information. Click Finish to map the drive. 9. After mapping the drive, you can perform file transfers, video streaming, and all other network data transfers that are normally performed with wired 10/100 Ethernet connection . Windows XP Wireless Network Configuration Aside from using the Network Control Panel (NCP)to configure the Wireless Network Adapter, Windows XP provides zero-configuration functionality that automatically tries to connect the STA to available wireless networks in the following order:
Infrastructure mode with valid WEP key Infrastructure mode with unauthenticated acce for tation without WEP keys Ad hoc mode To configure wireless network setting through the Windows XP user interface:
1. Open Network Connections from Control Panel. 2. Right-click the Local Area Network Connection icon (pertinent to Wireless Network Adapter). 3. Click Enable to enable the device first, and then click Properties. 4. On the Wireless Networks tab, select the Use Windows to configure my wireless network settings check box to enable automatic wireless network configuration. Refer to Infrastructure Mode or Ad Hoc Mode to set up the station to connect to an infrastructure or ad hoc network. If you want to use non-default setting for power saving and turbo mode, you should set those parameter through the NCP method
(refer to Device Configuration).Then use Wireless Network tab to select network name, network type, and encryption keys. Note that you can disable automatic wireless network configuration, and revert back to using NCP configuration settings, by clearing 24 Error! Style not defined.. Error! Style not defined. the Use Windows to configure my wireless network setting check box. Infrastructure Mode To set up automatic wireless network configuration to connect to an existing Access Point (infrastructure network),follow these steps:
1. Click the network name under Available networks in the Wireless Networks tab, and click Configure. You can update the list of available networks that are within range of your computer by clicking Refresh under Available Networks. If the network requires WEP, then the Data encryption (WEP enabled) check box is elected by default in Wireless Network Properties. 2. 3. Select The key is provided for me automatically check box if the WEP key is automatically provided for you. The driver will then use the Default Encryption key from the current NCP configuration profile irrespective of the network name. You may choose to enter the WEP key by clearing this check box and manually entering the network key and key length. NOTE: The key format must be hexadecimal digits and the key length is limited to 104-bit in Window XP, as opposed to 128-bit key supported by NDIS driver in the NCP configuration interface. If the network that you are connecting to requires 128-bit WEP key, then it is recommended that you disable Windows XP automatic wireless network configuration and use NCP configuration instead. Ad Hoc Mode To connect to an existing computer-to-computer (ad hoc)network:
1. Click the ad hoc network name under Available networks in 2. the Wireless Network tab, and click Configure. In Wireless s Network Properties, the This is a computer-to-computer (ad hoc) network; wireless access point 25 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual are not used check box is selected by default. You may choose to enable WEP by selecting the Data encryption
(WEP enabled) check box and the Network Authentication
(Shared mode) check box.. 3. Select the The key is provided for me automatically check box if the shared key is automatically provided for you. The driver will then use the Default Encryption key from the current NCP configuration profile irrespective of the network name. You may choose to enter the shared key by clearing this check box and enter the key and key length manually. NOTE: The key format must be hexadecimal digits and the key length is limited to 104-bit in Windows XP as opposed to 128-bit key supported by NDIS driver in the NCP configuration interface. If the network that you are connecting to require 128-bit WEP key then it is recommended that you disable Windows XP automatic wireless network configuration and use NCP configuration instead. 4. If you want to connect to an ad hoc network, but both ad hoc and infrastructure networks are within range of your computer, then click Advanced in the Wireless Network tab and then select Computer-to-computer (ad hoc)networks only .Note that if you want the station to start it own ad hoc network, the Computer-to-computer (ad hoc) networks only option should be selected. There should be no network active from the preferred list and the Automatically connect to non-preferred network check box should be cleared.. Connect to an Available Wireless Network When there is more than one available network detected by Windows XP, the OS will prompt you to select and connect to a preferred network. To connect to an available wireless network, right-click the network connection icon in the notification area, and then click View Available Wireless Network. In Connect to Wireless Network, under Available network, select the wireless network that you want to connect to. If a network key is required and is automatically provided for you, then leave Network key blank. If the network key is not automatically 26 Error! Style not defined.. Error! Style not defined. provided for you, then type the key in Network key. Click Connect to establish the network connection. If you are either unable to make a connection to the wireless network that you selected or need to configure additional wireless network connection settings, click Advanced in Connect to Wireless Network, and the Wireless Networks tab will appear. You can configure a new wireless network connection by clicking Add, and specifying the network name (SSID)in Wireless Network Properties, and the wireless network key settings, if needed. If the network connection that you are configuring is an ad hoc network, then select This is a computer-to-computer (ad hoc)network; wireless access point are not used check box. The network will be added under Preferred networks in the Wireless Networks tab. You can change the order of the preferred networks by selecting the wireless network that you want to reposition on the list, and then clicking Move up or Move down. You can change the wireless network connection settings of a preferred network by selecting the wireless network, clicking Properties, and then changing the setting as needed. To remove a wireless s network from the list of preferred networks, select the wireless network that you want to remove, and then click Remove. If a network is not defined in the preferred networks list, but you know it is available and you want to automatically connect to it, then click Advanced in the Wireless Networks tab, and select the Automatically connect to non-preferred network check box. 27 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual 5. Regulatory Compliance Information Radio Frequency Interference Requirements This device is restricted to indoor use due to its operation in the 5.15 to 5.25 GHz frequency range. FCC requires this product to be used indoors for the frequency range 5.15 to 5.25 GHz to reduce the potential for harmful interference to co-channel Mobile Satellite systems. High power radar are allocated as primary user of the 5.25 to 5.35 GHz and 5.65 to 5.85 GHz bands. These radar stations can cause interference with and / or damage this device. DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY We Askey Computer Corp. 10F, No.119, Chienkang Rd., Chung-Ho, Taipei, Taiwan R.O.C. declare under our sole responsibility that the product WLC221-D4 /
BCP3483U Wireless LAN CardBus Card Complies with Part 15 of FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions:
(1)the device may not cause harmful interference, and (2)this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. FCC WARNING This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limit for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. The equipment generate, use, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. 28 Error! Style not defined.. Error! Style not defined. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, with can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following methods:
_ Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna. _ Increase the separation between the equipment and the receiver. _ Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that which the receiver is connected. _ Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help. _ Modifications made to the product, unless expressly approved by Askey Computer Corp., could void the users authority to operate the equipment. RF Exposure In August 1996 the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of the United States with its action in Report and Order FCC 96-326 adopted an updated safety standard for human exposure to radio frequency electromagnetic energy emitted by FCC regulated transmitters. Those guidelines are consistent with the safety standard previously set by both U.S. and international standards bodies. The design of this device complies with the FCC guidelines and these international standards. Use only the supplied or an approved antenna. Unauthorized antennas, modifications, or attachments could result in violation of FCC regulations. This device can not co-locate or operate with any other transmitter. Body-worn Operation This device was tested with typical laptop computer with PCMCIA slot on either side of the computer for typical body-worn operations with the device directly contacted to the human body to the back and side of the laptop computer. To maintain compliance with FCC RF exposure compliance requirements, maintain at least 1.5 cm to nearby person. 29
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2003-03-26
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Askey Computer Corp
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0006923098
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10F, No. 119, JIANKANG RD.
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NEW TAIPEI CITY, N/A 23585
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Taiwan
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H8N
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WLC221-D4
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J**** C********
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Director
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886 2******** Extension:
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886 2********
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j******@askey.com.tw
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Compliance Certification Services
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S******** C******
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561F Monterey Rd.
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Morgan Hill, California 95037
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United States
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408-4********
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Compliance Certification Services
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H****** Z******
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561F Monterey Rd.
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United States
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408-4******** Extension:
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408-4********
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h******@ccsemc.com
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1 2 | Does this application include a request for confidentiality for any portion(s) of the data contained in this application pursuant to 47 CFR § 0.459 of the Commission Rules?: | Yes | ||||
1 2 | Long-Term Confidentiality Does this application include a request for confidentiality for any portion(s) of the data contained in this application pursuant to 47 CFR § 0.459 of the Commission Rules?: | No | ||||
if no date is supplied, the release date will be set to 45 calendar days past the date of grant. | ||||||
app s | Cognitive Radio & Software Defined Radio, Class, etc | |||||
1 2 | Is this application for software defined/cognitive radio authorization? | No | ||||
1 2 | Equipment Class | DTS - Digital Transmission System | ||||
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1 2 | Description of product as it is marketed: (NOTE: This text will appear below the equipment class on the grant) | 802.11 a/b WLAN Cardbus Module | ||||
1 2 | Related OET KnowledgeDataBase Inquiry: Is there a KDB inquiry associated with this application? | No | ||||
1 2 | Modular Equipment Type | Limited Single Modular Approval | ||||
1 2 | Purpose / Application is for | Original Equipment | ||||
1 2 | Composite Equipment: Is the equipment in this application a composite device subject to an additional equipment authorization? | Yes | ||||
1 2 | Related Equipment: Is the equipment in this application part of a system that operates with, or is marketed with, another device that requires an equipment authorization? | Yes | ||||
1 2 | Grant Comments | Limited Modular Approval - operation of this module in portable exposure conditions with respect to 2.1093 is limited as follows. SAR compliance has been established in the laptop computer(s) configurations with PCMCIA slot configurations (e.g., side near the rear) as tested in this filing, and can be used in laptop computers with substantially similar physical dimensions, construction, and electrical and RF characteristics. A class II permissive change filing demonstrating SAR compliance in other host types, e.g. PDA, is required to allow operation in those host types. Compliance of this device in all final host configurations is the responsibility of the Grantee. End-users must be provided with specific information required to satisfy RF exposure compliance for all final host devices. The antenna(s) used for this transmitter must not be co-located or operating in conjunction with any other antenna or transmitter within a host device. Highest reported SAR in W/kg is 0.7 at 5.8 GHz and 0.4 W/kg at 2.4 GHz. | ||||
1 2 | Limited Modular Approval - operation of this module in portable exposure conditions with respect to 2.1093 is limited as follows. SAR compliance has been established in the laptop computer(s) configurations with PCMCIA slot configurations (e.g., side near the rear) as tested in this filing, and can be used in laptop computers with substantially similar physical dimensions, construction, and electrical and RF characteristics. A class II permissive change filing demonstrating SAR compliance in other host types, e.g. PDA, is required to allow operation in those host types. Compliance of this device in all final host configurations is the responsibility of the Grantee. End-users must be provided with specific information required to satisfy RF exposure compliance for all final host devices. The antenna(s) used for this transmitter must not be co-located or operating in conjunction with any other antenna or transmitter within a host device. The highest reported SAR value is 0.8 W/kg at 5.2 GHz. | |||||
1 2 | Is there an equipment authorization waiver associated with this application? | No | ||||
1 2 | If there is an equipment authorization waiver associated with this application, has the associated waiver been approved and all information uploaded? | No | ||||
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Compliance Certification Services Inc
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S******** C********
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408-4******** Extension:
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408-4********
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s******@ccemc.com
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some individual PII (Personally Identifiable Information) available on the public forms may be redacted, original source may include additional details
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